[Hallicrafters] SX-42 Price?]

[Craig Roberts]

Craig Roberts wrote:

> My SX-42 was bought off eBay for $260 in barely operational condition 
> (despite being advertised as "excellent")..  The companion R-42 
> Reproducer (speaker) was an additional $85.  Its driver was 
> serviceable, but the cabinet was corroded and unsightly.  The material 
> cost of the necessary replacement of nearly all caps and resistors 
> plus re-tubing of the radio was about $200. (The actual cost was a 
> little more becaue I did, in fact, replace ALL caps and resistors -- 
> including those in the IF cans). I am now awaiting delivery of the 
> repainted receiver and speaker cabinets and repainted and silkscreened 
> front panel.  This will probably add  another $300 ore more to trhe cost.
>
> In the end, I'll have a "museum quality" SX-42 worth no less than 
> $1500 -- which is an insane price for a relatively ordinary, if 
> stylish, radio.
> It's worth it to me, however, because it's a replication of the first 
> "serious" radio I ever owned and the model that got me interested in 
> SWLing and amateur radio -- the radio my father gave to me for my 15th 
> birthday.  This impractical sentimentality is, I suspect, the primary 
> reason some of us are willing to spend ridiculous amounts of money on 
> obsolete devices -- but it sure is fun!
>
> 73
>
> Craig
> W3CRR
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