[Hallicrafters] S-20R manual

Fri Jun 27 22:51:06 EDT 2008

Pete,

Go for the groin OM, some of them need a grounded grid in their shorts! 
Where did the term "briefs", as in underwear - briefs Vs boxers, come from? 
Simple. An underwear salesman was trying to sell his wares to the department 
store manager and was told "to be brief about it". A snip here, a tuck there 
and a stich in time saved nine cents. The boxers became briefs, the briefs 
became bikinis and the rest of the story does not bare telling!

"But when it's free, "you get what you get""

Sometimes we get what we pay for, if so, it is generally more then we 
deserve. Sometimes we get less then we paid for, which counterbalances all 
of those times we shortchanged someone else. Then there are those times we 
got what we "prayed for", and lived to regret it!

Be careful what you "pray" for and what you "pay" for, as if most of us got 
either of them, the stock price for a share of Asbestos Underwear Inc. would 
hit the heavens as our life went to Hell!

As for those of you too cheap to purchase an original manual or high quality 
reprint version in good condition with text readable with ordinary bifocals, 
instead of needing an 8X lighted magnifier to find the paragraph divisions. 
Get bold, get brave, get greedy and hit that bloated cheap china piggy bank 
with that ancient Louisville Slugger you struck out with more times then 
Frankenstein did trying to get a blind date! In his case, the date had to be 
blind, literally! Then fill your faded bluejeans pockets, the ones you got 
for free from your cousin Louie The Leech who lost ninety-eight pounds when 
he divorced his fifth wife, but lost eight waist sizes when he got his buns 
caught in the cream seperator in the barn when the old Briggs and Stratton 
engine choked on the Ethonol and blew the intake valve into low Earth orbit! 
Take all of those Lincoln Wheat cents - 1909-1957, the Lincoln Memorial 
Cents 1958 to date, the Jefferson Nickels from 1938 to date, the Roosevelt 
90% Silver Roosevelt dimes from 1947-1964 and the copper/nickel clad 
Roosevelt dimes from 1965 to date, the 90% Silver Washington quarters from 
1932-1964 and copper/nickel Washington quarters from 1965 to date and the 
90% Silver Franklin halves from 1948-1963 and the 90% Silver 1964 Kennedy 
halves and the 40% Silver Kennedy halves from 1965-1970 and the 
copper/nickel Kennedy halves from 1971 to date. Now get on your 
Environmentally Green bean with bacon gas powered bicycle and head for the 
nearest bank. Turn those coins into a bank issued cashiers check, saving out 
$.42 for a postage stamp, and send it off to The Manual Man for a decent 
manual, complete with a schematic labeled in English - not some ancient 
artifact slang from a long forgotten tongue of that wicked warrior woman 
known as Angela The Hacking Hun! A beautiful manual, text as clear as the 
spark gap area between your ears, photos so graphically sharp that you could 
slice warm bread with them, a parts list so exacting and complete that it 
deserves a place in the Smithsonian Institute as an example of Ben 
Franklin's book on rules to use, not break, about "Success = proper parts, 
proper planning, proper execution and proper marketing." In any event, one 
of Pete's manuals won't leave you with loose screws, in your head or on the 
workbench, and you will not have to  sell raffle tickets to your Ham buddies 
as to who can come the closest to guessing the actual value of that resistor 
R999 drawn in greenish yellow crayon on the seriously worn faded brown 
grocery bag paper used for the schematic!

Don't bother writing to me to complain about my observations on how cheap we 
Hams can be, just go to the web site I had set up just for such occasions 
and leave your thoughts behind. Thank you.

http://www.I_Am So Cheap That I Squeek.buz

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Markavage" <manualman at juno.com>
To: <Hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 9:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] S-20R manual

> Yep, just like putting three new beautiful tires and rims on a car. As
> long as you don't try to move it.
> Besides the parts list, the pictorial to locate all the alignment
> trimmers is missing.
>
> But when it's free, "you get what you get"
>
> Pete
>
> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:56:28 -0400 "Harry Vaught, KT4AE"
> <kt4ae at bellsouth.net> writes:
>> Yes, it's even labeled as "re-mastered" but it's a beautiful piece of
>>
>> work and even absent the parts list it's very useful.
>>
>> The schematic is sharper than anything I've ever gotten from BAMA.
>> The
>> parts lists are available from the Rider's on Nostalgia Air, as I
>> posted
>> earlier or from the BAMA copy.
>>
>> Harry, KT4AE
>> Maryville, Tennessee
>>
>> Peter Markavage wrote:
>> > This is a re-typed version of only part of the manual.
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