[Hallicrafters] SX-88 & SX-101 Knob

Sun Nov 15 09:18:30 EST 2009

He certainly has earned a reputation among  almost the entire amateur 
community which will probably continue to dog him for  years but he might not 
care about that. I purchased #444 from him about ten  years ago simply because 
it was a good one and I had a policy back then to try  to obtain every good 
one that came up for sale. It is interesting to note former  #444 owner 
Groome had listed it on WA4KCY's SX-88 registry as new in the box but  this was 
an embellishment and clearly not the case. I restored #444 and recently  
sold it to a well known Collins collector in CT. The closest thing to new in 
the  box I have ever found is #352 which was obtained from the estate of John 
Huey;  W9AMU. He had purchased it for his Lake Michigan vacation house 
station, used it  for a short time and put it back in the box. It was found in a 
closet in the  original box with the original packing materials. It was 
interesting to discover  Hallicrafters originally mounted SX-88's to a wooden 
pallet inside the  box. John's nephew Ron told me at the time of the sale it 
received stations  but had a hum. This would obviously be an easy fix but I 
will probably not touch  it in order to keep all the original history intact.

Regards,  Greg

In a message dated 11/15/2009 6:24:04 A.M. Atlantic Standard Time,  
dh2fa at darc.de writes:
Chuck Groome, that name brings back bad memories, a lot  of money lost.

73 Heinz DH2FA, KM5VT

WA1KBQ at aol.com  schrieb:
> Yep, They were made for Jim at Dayco. Was it  200? I  thought he told me 
100 
> but I could be mistaken. Jim managed to  sell  nearly all of them except 
for 
> a small stash he held toward  the end. I believe  Chuck Groome in Paris 
TX 
> now has those  remaining few and I don't know how he  managed to get them.
>  
> Regards, Greg
> 
> In a message dated 11/15/2009   12:23:57 A.M. Atlantic Standard Time, 
> ewirtz at hbci.com writes:
>  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
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