[Hallicrafters] My First Boat Anchor Restoration: SX101 MkIII

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Jason, 

I had a hard time finding that fuse the first time I worked on a SX-101A, and if I remember correctly it is inside a cream colored sleeve and not visible until you slide the sleeve aside. 

Kurt 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Everette" <radiocompass at yahoo.com> 
To: hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net, "Ross Stenberg" <k9cox at charter.net> 
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 1:11:43 PM 
Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] My First Boat Anchor Restoration: SX101 MkIII 

Jason, 

Something else you might check... take a look at the tubes and make sure the correct tubes are in the sockets! 

I experienced this with an sx-100 a number of years ago... brought it up pn a variac, and no signals except a few in the 12-34 mc band. Noise on the others except for the AM BCB which was stone dead. 

Guess what... the first mixer tube had been replaced, probably by the seller to fill an empty socket before taking it to the hamfest. The tube was a 6AG5, instead of (I think) a 6BA6. Don't ask me how the thing was working on band 4 (12-34 mc) because the basing of these tubes is totally different except for the filament pins. I put the right tube in, and WHOOOOOOOMMMMM -- here came the signals! 

You should clean all the tube and socket pins, preferably with De-Oxit. 

The "always on" oscillator filament feature means you'll be replacing tubes every few months. Otherwise, you'll surely like the 101 Mark III. I think it is the best of the 101 series. 

If they just weren't so heavy...! 

73 

Mike 
W4DSE 




--- On Mon, 11/14/11, Ross Stenberg <k9cox at charter.net> wrote: 

> From: Ross Stenberg <k9cox at charter.net> 
> Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] My First Boat Anchor Restoration: SX101 MkIII 
> To: hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net 
> Date: Monday, November 14, 2011, 1:17 PM 
> Could be the LO is not on due to a 
> resistive heating device (I forget 
> what they are called) being open. I had it happen to me 
> once and 
> replaced it with a resistor and it came back to life. 
> 
> On 11/14/2011 10:20 AM, Jason Hissong wrote: 
> > Hi guys, 
> > 
> > I am new to using and hopefully restoring old 
> radios. I have grown 
> > particularly fond of Hallicrafters gear since I got my 
> HT37 at Dayton 
> > a few years back. Well, I picked up an SX101 Mk 
> III at Dayton this 
> > past year. 
> > 
> > When I opened it up, it appears that someone already 
> went in and 
> > replaced the caps with Olsen type "TV" 
> Capacitors. It also appears a 
> > few caps were added to the capacitor can in the power 
> supply. I was 
> > told by local hams to replace the Olsen caps so I plan 
> to do this. 
> > 
> > The unit is in great cosmetic condition. When I 
> fire it up, there is 
> > no hum whatsoever. All the features appear to 
> work, selectivity, 
> > volume, notch, mode switch, audio etc. However, 
> I hear barely 
> > anything coming out of the receiver with the RF gain 
> all the way up. 
> > I went in a cleaned up the band switch contacts and 
> that improved 
> > things somewhat. I can hear signals, however, 
> the frequency does not 
> > change when I turn the VFO knob. The volume changes 
> (i.e, the receiver 
> > appears to get less sensitive as I move away from a 
> particular 
> > frequency). This only happens when the 
> Calibrator is engaged (which I 
> > picked up after I got the radio). With the 
> calibrator off, I hear 
> > nothing. 
> > 
> > I went ahead and ordered a cap replacement kit for it 
> from Hayseed. I 
> > am hoping there are some bad caps in there. 
> > 
> > Any tips or a general idea what may be going wrong 
> would be 
> > appreciated. This will be my first boat anchor 
> project. I do have 
> > experience building kits (I have build a few K2s, KX1, 
> etc) 
> > 
> > Thanks es 73, 
> > Jason N8XE 
> > 
> 
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