[Hallicrafters] Speaker values

[Ed]

Well in this case, I take my words back. If you're willing to spend many 
hours or $100 or more to sand, repaint, silkscreen and recone, then $43 for 
an R-46B is a fair price.
Ed
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> My personal opinion on all this paint matching is that most of these
> companies had no idea that folks would be amassing large quantities of 
> their equipment
> and therefore were not concerned that batches of cabinets would match. For
> example, if they painted a large number of R-46B speakers, they would want 
> to be
> sure that at least the dark gray would match the current batch of 
> receivers
> which the speakers were to be paired with. If you bought a receiver one 
> year
> and decided a year later to buy a speaker, the chance of an exact paint 
> match
> could be a tossup.
>
> I have a large collection of the SR series transceivers and similar 
> cabinets
> such as the
> SX-117. Inside in normal room light, they match perfectly. As you are 
> aware,
> Hallicrafters appearently did not prime these cabinets, either and the 
> paint
> flakes off just by looking at it. I removed all the rigs from their 
> cabinets
> and was taking them to be bead blasted before having them custom painted. 
> When
> I had them all together outside in the sun before loading them in the 
> vehile,
> I was shocked to find that there were no less than 4 different shades of 
> gray
> on the various cabinets. Some of this was undoubtedly due to factory
> mis-matching, but you also have to consider the things happen to paint 
> over many years.
> Not the least being in a smoking environment, atmospheric exposure and
> storage methods.
>
> The choice, therefore, is to leave everything in an "as found" condition
> complete with scratches, dings, rust, chipped paint, etc, or have it
> professionally blasted and painted and screened in the closest color match 
> you can get.
> Even then, If you don't have all your cabinets of a certain color done at 
> the
> same time, there will still be some variation, regardless of how 
> professional the
> painter is and how close the formulas are matched.
>
> By the way, these SR cabinets cost about $100.00 each for the complete
> process but the new paint is hard as a rock and the painter did an 
> outstanding job
> of matching the "blotchy' original paint jobs and color.
>
> 73,
>
> John,  W4AWM
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