[Hallicrafters] Story's of hallicrafters finds

[JOHN M IVERSON]

Well Gary, my best garage sale was in this area several years ago.
I was crusing around and stopped at a house 3 blocks away.
 He had two military looking things  and I said  "how much" 
he said both for 50 bucks. I must have had an incredulous look on my 
face so he said and that includes that box over there and a big 
garbage bag of tubes in the crawl space.
this is what there were, 2  mil SX-73, 15 or so good military 
headfones and about 200 new tubes in new boxes.
Seems as tho his former son in law left his family for parts unknown.
The tubes from a cousin who was the us rep for a jap tube company,
lots of 6JS6Cs and other goodies.
jack
K0EWU                   jackiv at juno.com
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 09:01:28 -0500 "GBrown" <gkbrown at gwi.net> writes:
> I bet everyone has a good story about finding that elusive 
> hallicrafters.
> Just a couple of my stories.
> #1- Bought a SX-28 at a local Kiwanis auction for $20.00. All 
> original with
> manual. No extra holes or rust. It now sets in the middle of my 
> shack.
> #2- Set back and grab the arms of your chair. This really happened. 
> A few
> years back XYL wanted to go yard saleing. As she was poking thru 
> some
> glassware, I struck up a conversation with the woman that was having 
> the
> yard sale. Seems that her husband had passed away and had retired 
> from the
> military. She took me to the garage and there sat two hallicrafters
> receivers. Both were the same model number. We had an ice storm two 
> years
> previous to my showing up at the yard sale and the receivers had 
> been
> setting on cardboard boxes. Having a dirt floor and the melting ice, 
> the
> receivers ended up face down in the dirt and water. She said that 
> they were
> to heavy for her to lift and let them stay were they were for 
> several years.
> I asked how much for them and was told that they were free for the 
> taking.
> "If I didn't take them, they were going to the dump". I loaded them 
> into my
> XYL's SUV. Now your all wondering what the were.
> SX-88's, yep, that's rite, two of them. All rusted and broken knobs, 
> frozen
> shafts, etc. But still SX-88's.
> What was your best find?
> Gary...WZ1M
> 
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