[Hallicrafters] A SX-28 followed me home today

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Hi Bob,

Get a life OM! Haven't you seen that commercial on cable/satellite TV about 
the forearm forklift straps for the amazing price of just ... (hernia not 
included!). Perhaps they work, perhaps not. I would feel a lot more 
comfortable hiring two male hormone charged seventeen year old teenage boys 
to lift those glow in the dark anchors of boats!

Can it be possible that the SX-28 or SX-101 series or the HT-32b or the 
HT-41 etc. have gone from being heavy when we were forty to bone fracturing, 
groin rupturing, hamstring tearing heavy sice we passed that half of a 
century mark? Could it be that we are just getting old and out of shape? 
Nah! Couldn't be that! (Chuckle)

You will know for certain that you are officially old when you get an AARP 
card in the mail on your 48th birthday! You can not "legally" join AARP 
until you are fifty, but since they can not discriminate because of age, you 
can join at age forty-eight! Pretty slick thinking on their part, heh? True 
too!

But you know you are really old when you have to use the term "Grandpa" in 
the first person! As in: "I am a Grandfather" and not "He is a Grandfather"!

But you are seriously old when you are the only one left who remembers the 
stories about when you were young and "what really" happened!


Duane Fischer, W8DBF/WPE8CXO
dfischer at usol.com
HHI: Halligan's Hallicrafters International
http://www.w9wze.net
HHRP: Historic Halligan Radio Project
hhrp.w9wze.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Krassa" <radio at krassa.com>
To: "jeremy-ca" <km1h at jeremy.mv.com>; "Julian Bunn" 
<Julian.Bunn at caltech.edu>
Cc: <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 6:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] A SX-28 followed me home today


> They are heavy, and no real good way to get your hands under
> them.  Has anyone set their shack up to use a lifting hand
> truck.  They come with crank or electric winches.  To use
> them, you would need to build a little wood pallet for each
> boatanchor or full size scope, so the forks could get under
> it just like in a full size pallet.  Or, just install
> higher "feet" to give clearance for the forks.  Then, you
> could move the rig from the shelf to the bench to the scope
> cart. Haven't done it but am considering it.  The idea of
> using scope carts is good, but lifting a Tek* 585A onto one
> of the great old sloping carts is not that much fun.  I
> guess you'd still have to lift the scope from the forks onto
> the sloping scope cart...
> 73 Bob Krassa KC0TDS
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