[Hallicrafters] Hallicrafters Digest, Vol 125, Issue 4

[Al Parker]

hi Bob,
	I have some pix, but not real hi-res.  Also have several sketches I 
made, long ago, showing component layout in several critical areas.  I 
can email them all to you if you'd like.  The pix may also show on my 
SX-28 webpage.
73,

Al, W8UT
www.boatanchors.org
www.hammarlund.info

"There is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half so much
worth doing as simply messing about in boats"
Ratty, to Mole
On 6/5/2014 8:54 AM, Robert Sauvan wrote:
> Well,
> I can understand that for sure, but the resistor looks pretty
> distinctively yellow, brown, black stripes with the last being gold
> putting it into a 5% tolerance. According to my chart, the actual spec
> calls for a 47k which would be yellow, violet, black and it could be
> quite possible the brown stripe was violet but it looks to be quite a
> stretch from looking at this thing. But, this is good to know because in
> the future I will keep that in mind and not take the color on the
> resistor to be quite true if it is fried. Even at 41K with a 5%
> tolerance, the resistor I took out wasnt even close to the spec called
> for in the manual. After closer investigating under the chassis, I see
> someone has been messing with it and it has some strange areas that I
> need to look at closer. The radio works fine, but, there is a cluster of
> diodes and resistors that are just soldered in mid air around the power
> supply circuitry. So, Im thinking the owner who did this must have had
> some power supply issues and rewired to his liking. Boy, is it a mess.
> When I become a bit more secure about my troubleshooting, I might tackle
> that project to get it back to square one. I would love to see what a
> stock radio looks like compared to mine. Some pictures of the
> undercarriage wiring of one that hasnt been modified would be nice to
> see to compare to mine. The pictures in the manual arent very clear so
> it is hard to tell what this mess is supposed to look like. Anyway, I
> feel good that I was able to find this little issue and can move on to
> something else in hopes of improving this old radio.
>
>
> Thanks-Bob-W0YBS
>
>
>
> On 6/4/2014 9:15 PM, radio at daileyservices.com wrote:
>> 41 wasn't a standard value, but you'll find that when they "cook",
>> that yellow can turn into brown pretty quick
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