[Hallicrafters] Guilt Feelings

[Craig Roberts]

My major "dumpster crime" (before dumpsters) wasn't tossing a priceless 
piece of ham gear. It was worse, believe it or not. 

When I was about 14 my grandmother gave me a radio chassis to play with. 
She had retrieved it from my grandfather; a farmer who made extra money 
by using his hefty pickup truck to haul heavy "junk" out of 
townspeople's attics and basements. The handsome radio chassis was 
complete and, in retrospect, could probably have been made to function 
fully with the replacement of a cap or two. I didn't care to fix it, 
however, I was more interested in cannibalizing it to build up my modest 
cache of junk box parts.

The old radio was a veritable treasure trove of goodies. I got about 20 
tubes out of it, for instance, and buckets of "condensers" and resistors 
and mysterious cans, coils and gimcracks. After completely gutting the 
radio, I tossed the "scrap metal" chassis back into the bed of Grandpa's 
truck.  I had some trepidation about doing this, though, because the 
chassis was so shiny and nice looking -- chrome plated, even.  It was, 
of course, manufactured by E.H. Scott.

Well, now that that's off my chest, I don't feel a bit better.

73,

Craig
W3CRR
www.aerialacts.com