[Hammarlund] Re: Hammarlund Digest, Vol 59, Issue 16
grg
w5grg at w5grg.net
Wed Dec 24 20:03:46 EST 2008
Tom- I am in need of 2 dial covers for a BC-1004 do you think the ones
off of the HQ-129 will fit?
Thanks, George, W5GRG, AFA4GG
hammarlund-request at mailman.qth.net wrote:
> Send Hammarlund mailing list submissions to
> hammarlund at mailman.qth.net
>
> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
> http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hammarlund
> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
> hammarlund-request at mailman.qth.net
>
> You can reach the person managing the list at
> hammarlund-owner at mailman.qth.net
>
> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
> than "Re: Contents of Hammarlund digest..."
>
>
> Today's Topics:
>
> 1. Wrong bandspread dial ?? (Pat & Rich McKinney)
> 2. Re: HQ-170 DIAL CLEANING? (Glen Zook)
> 3. Re: Wrong bandspread dial ?? (Bill Stewart)
> 4. Re: Wrong bandspread dial ?? (Tom N?JMY)
> 5. Re: Wrong bandspread dial ?? (Jon Teske)
> 6. May your boatanchors be happy and glow bright!!! (Bill)
> 7. HQ-129X cabinet paint (Carl)
> 8. Re: HQ-170 DIAL CLEANING? (Ed - K9EW)
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:41:06 -0500
> From: "Pat & Rich McKinney" <pmcknney at bellsouth.net>
> Subject: [Hammarlund] Wrong bandspread dial ??
> To: <hammarlund at mailman.qth.net>
> Message-ID: <6C52AEFF4F7A4A9694A0E5E0DBF4413F at pmcknneyPC>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> DE WB4VFN Rich and I am working on a HQ-129-x that a friend bought at a hamfest. Someone did a fine job restoring the old rig but left some issues. I think he put in a wrong bandspread dial. To align the rig the books says to put the bandspread at 200. This bandspread has a scale of 0 to 100 with 0 being minimum capacitance. I got thru alignment with bandspread at 0 but when using the bandspread the frequency goes down as I tune from 0 up. The dial looks like it belongs but it's like its installed backwards. If this is the case any help on locating the right dial appreciated. 73 Rich
> -------------- next part --------------
> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
> URL: http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/hammarlund/attachments/20081224/6696dffe/attachment-0001.htm
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:55:53 -0800 (PST)
> From: Glen Zook <gzook at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Hammarlund] HQ-170 DIAL CLEANING?
> To: Hammarlund List <hammarlund at mailman.qth.net>,
> Boatanchors at mailman.qth.net, Ed - K9EW <k9ew57 at gmail.com>
> Message-ID: <309459.80369.qm at web52904.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
> If you want to see the lettering float off in the water then do as you plan. However, if you want to save the calibration then only use a very soft dry cloth and be VERY careful as you wipe the dial.
>
> Glen, K9STH
>
> Website: http://k9sth.com
>
>
> --- On Tue, 12/23/08, Ed - K9EW <k9ew57 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Ed - K9EW <k9ew57 at gmail.com>
>
> When I have a question, I'm glad I have these lists to turn to.
>
> I'm cleaning up an old HQ-170, and the dials with the frequency scales on them need a good cleaning. How do I get to them to clean them? (I plan on using just a mild detergent and water once I can get to them.)
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:05:02 -0500 (EST)
> From: Bill Stewart <cwopr at embarqmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Hammarlund] Wrong bandspread dial ??
> To: Pat & Rich McKinney <pmcknney at bellsouth.net>
> Cc: hammarlund at mailman.qth.net
> Message-ID:
> <468674345.294541230149102308.JavaMail.root at md37.embarq.synacor.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>
>
>
> Hi Rich,
>
> Your friend will like the 129-X...real nice for AM, SWBC and even CW. My 129-X bs dial is 0-200 and is P/N 6051. Turn my bs knob cw and the freq/log scale goes up in value. My rcvr came out before we got 15 mtrs so it has no 21 mc bs on the dial. Good luck and a Merry Christmas...
>
> 73 de Bill K4JYS
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pat & Rich McKinney" <pmcknney at bellsouth.net>
> To: hammarlund at mailman.qth.net
> Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2008 2:41:06 PM (GMT-0500) America/New_York
> Subject: [Hammarlund] Wrong bandspread dial ??
>
>
>
> DE WB4VFN Rich and I am working on a HQ-129-x that a friend bought at a hamfest. Someone did a fine job restoring the old rig but left some issues. I think he put in a wrong bandspread dial. To align the rig the books says to put the bandspread at 200. This bandspread has a scale of 0 to 100 with 0 being minimum capacitance. I got thru alignment with bandspread at 0 but when using the bandspread the frequency goes down as I tune from 0 up. The dial looks like it belongs but it's like its installed backwards. If this is the case any help on locating the right dial appreciated. 73 Rich
> -------------- next part --------------
> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
> URL: http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/hammarlund/attachments/20081224/a900acd0/attachment-0001.htm
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:18:17 -0600
> From: Tom N?JMY <n0jmy at hayseedhamfest.com>
> Subject: Re: [Hammarlund] Wrong bandspread dial ??
> To: Pat & Rich McKinney <pmcknney at bellsouth.net>
> Cc: hammarlund at mailman.qth.net
> Message-ID: <49529909.9000806 at hayseedhamfest.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> I've got a couple of HQ-129X's in the cannibalize category. I'm pretty
> sure one still has both dials. I can check right after Christmas, and
> if there, I can thaw it out and remove it.
>
> Tnx, 73, es have a Merry Christmas,
> Tom NØJMY
>
> www.hayseedhamfest.com
> HQ-129X can-capacitors
>
>
>
> Pat & Rich McKinney wrote:
>> DE WB4VFN Rich and I am working on a HQ-129-x that a friend bought at a
>> hamfest. Someone did a fine job restoring the old rig but left some
>> issues. I think he put in a wrong bandspread dial. To align the rig
>> the books says to put the bandspread at 200. This bandspread has a
>> scale of 0 to 100 with 0 being minimum capacitance. I got thru
>> alignment with bandspread at 0 but when using the bandspread the
>> frequency goes down as I tune from 0 up. The dial looks like it belongs
>> but it's like its installed backwards. If this is the case any help on
>> locating the right dial appreciated. 73 Rich
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> List Administrator: Duane Fischer W8DBF
>> ** For Assistance: dfischer at usol.com **
>> ----
>> http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hammarlund
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:28:35 -0500
> From: Jon Teske <jdteske at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [Hammarlund] Wrong bandspread dial ??
> To: "Pat & Rich McKinney" <pmcknney at bellsouth.net>,
> hammarlund at mailman.qth.net
> Message-ID: <20081224203614.45EF18582B3 at mailman.qth.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> About 40 years ago I had an old HQ 129x that I got from a work
> colleague to whom I had given a Novice test. He had gotten it from
> his late father who also had been a ham. It had been used
> in a PA coal mining town and was really filthy. I did manage to
> clean it up and get it working. The dials were somewhat decrepit.
> No, they were a LOT decrepit.
>
> Sooooo, what I did. I made paper templates of the dials using the
> angular measurements from the center to each major dial point.
> I also calibrated 15 meters on it since the HQ-129x antedated
> 15 meters as a ham band. I inked it using my old high school
> drafting tools with india ink and I used small press-on lettering
> for the numerals. (Did i mention this was painstaking?) I then
> took it to a photo lab who used this original, done on what was
> then called "onion skin" a sort of transparent paper used for inking
> drafting drawings (Imagine this is all done on CAD nowadays.)
>
> I checked the calibrations with my HQ-100 and a 100KC calibrator.
> The hash marks were done by eyeball.
>
> The photo lab made contact negatives of my tracing which provided
> a white-on-black tuning and band spread dial. I laminated the two
> negatives between some rather tick transparent laminating film
> which resulted in two dial faces about the thickness of the original
> plastic ones. I took the original and by now yellowing and torn
> dial faces off their hubs and riveted the new faces to the hubs
> and then reinstalled them in the HQ-129X.
>
> (I later became a pro photographer as an avocational career and
> I probably could have done the same sorts of things in my dark
> room, but this was all done pre-darkroom. The labs most likely
> used litho film for the transfer.
>
> I played around with that radio for a couple of years and did just
> about every published mod to it. It was a rather "hot" receiver
> and I used it sometimes instead of the HQ-100 I had gotten as
> a teenager from my parents. I sold it to a fellow who was looking
> for an SWL receiver.
>
> So if you ever run into an HQ-129X (I forgot who bought it from me)
> that has reversed dial colors...the light shown through the numbers...
> and also has 15 meters calibrated (this was before the WARC bands
> were introduced), it very likely is my old radio. There probably are
> still some spots of coal dust in it. I think I may have also laminated
> some white translucent film in the dial sandwich to soften the
> light a bit.
>
> Jon W3JT (I may have put my then current call on it...W3DRV)
>
>
>
>
> At 02:41 PM 12/24/2008, you wrote:
>> DE WB4VFN Rich and I am working on a HQ-129-x that a friend bought
>> at a hamfest. Someone did a fine job restoring the old rig but left
>> some issues. I think he put in a wrong bandspread dial. To align
>> the rig the books says to put the bandspread at 200. This
>> bandspread has a scale of 0 to 100 with 0 being minimum
>> capacitance. I got thru alignment with bandspread at 0 but when
>> using the bandspread the frequency goes down as I tune from 0
>> up. The dial looks like it belongs but it's like its installed
>> backwards. If this is the case any help on locating the right dial
>> appreciated. 73 Rich
>> _______________________________________________
>> List Administrator: Duane Fischer W8DBF
>> ** For Assistance: dfischer at usol.com **
>> ----
>> http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hammarlund
>>
>>
>> No virus found in this incoming message.
>> Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com
>> Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.0/1863 - Release Date:
>> 12/24/2008 11:49 AM
> -------------- next part --------------
> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
> URL: http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/hammarlund/attachments/20081224/eaa59ce7/attachment-0001.htm
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:38:12 -0500
> From: "Bill" <kirklandb at sympatico.ca>
> Subject: [Hammarlund] May your boatanchors be happy and glow bright!!!
> To: <hammarlund at mailman.qth.net>
> Message-ID: <001101c96607$9447d6b0$0201a8c0 at bill1qh4y921ze>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> Merry Christmas all from the great white north!!!!
>
> Bill,
> Ve3jhu
>
> -------------- next part --------------
> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
> URL: http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/hammarlund/attachments/20081224/2488b001/attachment-0001.htm
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:00:39 -0500
> From: "Carl" <km1h at jeremy.mv.com>
> Subject: [Hammarlund] HQ-129X cabinet paint
> To: <hammarlund at mailman.qth.net>
> Message-ID: <58859F7DB7724757A88C99E7DE1127FF at KITTYMA123>
> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1";
> reply-type=original
>
> I thought I had the info saved but cant find it and Google is no help.
>
> What is an exact color match in a standard rattle can? The 129 Im
> working on has a flaking bezel that I'll strip and respray with a black
> wrinkle and then overspray with the proper color. I strolled thru
> WalMart today with the bezel and saw several possibilities but I never
> trust the cap color!
>
> Carl
> KM1H
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 8
> Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:20:19 -0600
> From: "Ed - K9EW" <k9ew57 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Hammarlund] HQ-170 DIAL CLEANING?
> To: "Hammarlund List" <hammarlund at mailman.qth.net>,
> Boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
> Message-ID:
> <935b48730812241620o7229c85ei6606538551d44b05 at mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>
> Thanks to everyone for the caution about cleaning the HQ-170 dials. I
> thought I'd be safe with the mild detergent and water, but I'll just
> do a dry wipe. But how do I get to the dials? Do I have to remove
> the front panel? What else do I have to do to get to the dials?
>
> tnx es 73,
> ed - k9ew
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> _______________________________________________
> Hammarlund mailing list
> Hammarlund at mailman.qth.net
> http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hammarlund
>
>
> End of Hammarlund Digest, Vol 59, Issue 16
> ******************************************
>
>
>
More information about the Hammarlund
mailing list