[Hallicrafters] SX-88 & SX-101 Knob

[Ed Wirtz]

Hey guys,

A little bit of trivia on the SX88 belt saga.  Jim Jorgenson K9RJ, rest his
soul, had new belts made. I know because I bought two of them. One I
installed in my SX88. The other I stored inside the radio for safe keeping.
It went with the radio when I sold it several years ago. Jim had 200 of
these made. Where all of them are now I have no idea. 

73,

Ed, KØBKA

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:hallicrafters-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Roy Morgan
Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2009 5:01 PM
To: hallicrafters Hallicrafters
Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] SX-88 & SX-101 Knob


On Nov 14, 2009, at 5:07 PM, Duane Fischer, W8DBF wrote:
... If anyone could figure out a way
> to make a profit producting reproduction knobs, I figured Hank was  
> the man.

Reproduction parts of good quality are a problem to manufacture.  Take  
the belt used in the SX-88, for instance.  I've heard second hand that  
one collector tried to find these belts and talked with an engineer at  
the company that made the original ones.  The sad part is that the  
company had cleaned out not too long before and disposed of the molds  
needed to create more of the unique belt.  The even more sad part is  
that to recreate the mold and do a modest production run was going to  
cost many thousands of dollars.  With only one hundred fifty known  
radios, the market is very small and the price to produce per belt  
would  be very  high.

Roy

Roy Morgan
k1lky at earthlink.net
529 Cobb St.
Groton NY, 13073
Home: 607-898-3607
Cell: 301-928-7794



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