[Hallicrafters] Tube trade anyone?

[Richard Knoppow]

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From: <lbohn at shaw.ca>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 8:23 AM
Subject: [Hallicrafters] Tube trade anyone?


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> Good morning to the group,
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> Even though I have been a ‘silent’ member of the group for 
> some time and haven’t done much posting, I have been 
> learning a great deal.
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> I have a Hallicrafters SX-99 and a S-38 which are complete 
> and in very nice shape and I hope to rebuild them one day 
> but I feel that my skills still need to be honed before I 
> try.  Comunications receivers with their idiosyncrasies 
> seem to be a totally different ball of wax from the 
> standard broadcast band sets of the time.
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> I have some new 807 tubes in original boxes that I am 
> willing to do some sort of trade if anyone is interested? 
> I have a couple of nice Quad II stereo amps and I’m 
> particularly interested in KT66 tubes for them.  I am also 
> looking for  6U5 ‘tuning eye’ tubes or any other 
> interesting trade.

     If you are talking about trading the tubes for work  I 
think there are many here who are expert and will advise you 
via the list without being compensated.  That is really the 
purpose of lists like this one.
     The S-38 is not a particularly sophisticated receiver, 
in fact, its a plain old AA-5 with short wave bands and a 
BFO.
     Do you have any instruments?   Working on receivers 
really requires at least a decent VOM and some sort of 
signal source. Its well to have an electronic voltmeter as 
well.   An oscilloscope can be very helpful but is not a 
necessity.
     The most common problem with all old receives is bad 
capacitors.  If you have worked on old broadcast band tube 
receivers the S-38 will be easy and many other 
communications receivers not much more complicated.


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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk at ix.netcom.com