[Hallicrafters] Internet parts Supplier ?

[Mike Everette]

Heads up, fellow warriors:
> >
> > With a small tear the last local electronic
> component
> > store in CT that I know about (Bond radio in
> Derby)
> > has closed. I now have to depend on the Internet
> for
> > parts. 

Didst thou miss an Opportunity here?

When the mom-and-pop electronics houses close, you
should  sieze the moment and make them an offer for
their stock of resistors, caps, electrolytics and
whatever else.  

Several years ago, when Raleigh, NC's last electronic
hole-in-the-wall shut down -- after fifty years in
business -- upon losing their lease, I was able to buy
their entire remaining stock of can-type electrolytics
for $20.  This was something like 70 caps.  Not all of
them were 80-80-80-80 at 450 volts but a good number
were in that ballpark.  

I was able to get a couple of metal drawer cabinets
almost full of disc ceramics for a total of $30; and
bought a bunch of Sprague orange drops and the
CDE-equivalent "brown turds" for a reasonable price.  

Believe it or not, there were quite a few of 5 or 10
pack bags of Jin-Yoo-Wine Black Beauties, with Color
Codes.  I should have bought those and put 'em on
eVilBay for the audiophools.  An opportunity missed. 
I even saw three or four bags of wax caps.  Didn't get
them either.

For some reason they didn't want to part with their
resistors as cheaply; I got some but nowhere near what
I'd have liked to.  The one thing I wish I had tried
to buy, and didn't, was their stock of "sand" wire
wound resistors.  As we all know, power resistors are
hard to find.  I have been waiting four months now,
for some to add a PTT mod in my Ranger.

They had a good stock of speakers; I couldn't afford
all of them (didn't want 'em all) but came home with a
few 5 and 6 inchers; plus found TWO NIB ten inch
musical instrument speakers for $10 each.  Those make
SSB sound like hi-fi, in a Hallicrafters R-46 cabinet.

Three wire power cords, two bits each.  Audio patch
cords, and coax cables with RCA plugs, or video patch
cords with F connectors, same.

There were bags, and bags, and bags of brown phenolic
terminal strips -- a 3x3x3 foot square box packed full
of 100-bag assortments.  I couldn't take them all, but
stocked up at two bits a bag.

Sams Photofacts back to the dawn of time... I hauled
away five filing cabinets full for $5 a cabinet, and
yes, the cabinets came with them.  Over a weekend, I
culled them down to a 24-inch stack of what I wanted
(Halli, Hammarlund, National etc, even some Collins,
and some audio stuff), sold some duplicates, and found
a home for all the Teevy ones along with the cabinets.

Moral of the story: For a couple of hundred bucks, I
got a stock of stuff deep enough to last a while
without having to resort to eVilBay or other Internet
sources, or paying shipping charges; and the quality
is probably better.

I found out, too late, thet their stock of Merit and
Halldorson replacement transformers, chokes, IF cans,
etc etc had been tossed in the dumpster.  And the
dumpster had been dumped.  WAAAAAAAAAAA!  Even without
all the Teevy IFs, flybacks, yokes and vertical output
trannys, there would have been gold in that pile! 

They had sold all their remaining tubes to a dealer;
but most of what they still had on hand at that time
were wierd Teevy types anyway.

So the next time you hear of an impending disaster in
your neighborhood, go down and play Deal-or-No-Deal. 
You might come home a winner.

Warning.  The key to success is:  Don't be too eager.

73

Mike
WA4DLF


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