[Hallicrafters] My Wife has good taste <grin>

[Philip Atchley]

Hi Y'all,

Well, I finished recapping the SX-101 and played it awhile (without touching 
the alignment).  Just replacing those capacitors and cleaning the controls 
and switches made a VAST difference in the overall performance of the set. 
It actually seems to work as it should 8^)

My wife wasn't home when the SX-101 belonging to a friend arrived along with 
it's mate, an HT-37 that is my "payment" for cleaning up the SX-101. 
Anyway, I'd just finished removing and reinstalling the front panel and 
knobs to clean the brown nicotine "yuck" from the dial, S meter etc when I 
showed it to my wife.  Now, this woman is a GREAT wife (of 32 years), but 
has absolutely no interest in boatanchors!  She took one look at the radio 
and said "it was hers". I told her, "no, it belongs to a friend" and showed 
her "my" HT-37.  She said "I'd rather have that one", pointing at the 
SX-101.

Now, let me ask you, does this woman have good taste or what? (She must 
have, she married me ;-)

QUESTION on another point. The tuning on this set was quite stiff with NO 
flywheel action at all while tuning.  While I had the face off I thoroughly 
cleaned, oiled and lubed the entire tuning mechanism.  I used a light 
synthetic grease on the gears (same as we use on VCR's at the shop).  The 
tuning is MUCH smoother, but it does NOT have the really free and smooth 
feel that I'd expect of a tuning system having a heavy weighted knob AND a 
flywheel.  Is this normal?

73 de Phil,  KO6BB
http://users.mercednet.com/beaconeer/
Merced, Central California, 37.3N  120.48W  CM97sh

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