[Hallicrafters] National RBL-6 is restored!

[F W Mooney]

Thanks to everyone who gave advice on my two RBL-6 connectors.  I received a wealth of information and several suggestions for obtaining them both.

For your viewing pleasure, here's two photos of what is now the COOLEST radio in my collection!  

http://home.sprintmail.com/~fmooney/RBL6/rbl6-2.jpg  

http://home.sprintmail.com/~fmooney/RBL6/rbl6-3.jpg

Thanks again to all who helped me out.  Been working this one for a few months now.  I'd be working on it a few months more if y'all hadn't shared your know-how.  Now I can spend a little hobby time updating the Hallicrafter Collectors website.  Or, perhaps a National web site???? 

- Fred M.  KA1DGL
  webmaster at w9wze.org
  HCI website: http://www.w9wze.org
  Search the "National Archives":  http://www.w9wze.org/ReflectorSearch/SearchReflectorForm.php?startList=National

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From: 	Roy Morgan[SMTP:roy.morgan at nist.gov]
Sent: 	Monday, July 29, 2002 2:26 PM
To: 	F W Mooney; 'Boatanchors'; 'Hallicrafters'; 'National Reflector'
Subject: 	Re: [Hallicrafters] Name that connector!

At 01:19 PM 7/27/02 -0400, F W Mooney wrote:
>  National RBL-6, which has two unusual connectors on the back.  Can 
> anyone identify
>The first one is a huge coaxial cable connector for 50 ohm coax:

Fred,

That looks like the old "Navy Connector" that was used on early RAL/RAK 
receivers and is the equivalent to the General Radio 700-series coax 
connector.  The mating connector has a smooth cylindrical split exterior 
shell and a center pin that is a female banana socket.  Some where in the 
1930's GR abandoned that system for the much improved 874 series of 
connectors.  The connectors you need are hard to fine nowadays, though 
persistence at hamfests may turn one up.  Luckly, most folks nowadays don't 
know what they are.

>The second one is a three wire AC line cord connector.

That is a "standard"  "Twist-Lock" connector by Hubbel.  I can't tell from 
your photo what the diameter is, but it looks like the smaller of the two 
most common sizes.  They can be had today I think from parts 
suppliers.  Yours has the center grounding pin and dis-similar curved 
locking tabs for line and neutral.