[Hammarlund] time capsule SP-400X (Bob Young)

[Richard Knoppow]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Todd, KA1KAQ" <ka1kaq at gmail.com>
To: "Bob Young" <bobyoung53 at hotmail.com>
Cc: <hammarlund at mailman.qth.net>; <djed1 at aol.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 1:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Hammarlund] time capsule SP-400X (Bob Young)


> The tuning, band spread, and band change knobs are 
> original. The rest are
> generic chickenheads, a typical mod done in the day along 
> with changing the
> tuning knobs as they were a bit small and hard to grip in 
> comparison to
> what was readily available. Though the more Deco 
> 'streamlined' knobs are
> much cooler looking.
>
> The good news is, they're bolt-on parts, not irreversible 
> mods involving
> holes or such. But for a $500 opening bid, one would 
> expect the correct
> knobs to at least be included. It's not a rare radio and 
> though the overall
> condition is clean, I have a buddy in VA with an 
> equally-clean example and
> have seen a few others over the years.
>
> It should certainly bring more than they typical piss-beat 
> SP-200 or -400,
> at least. The knobs off a HQ-129X would get most of the 
> job done.
>
> ~ Todd,  KA1KAQ/4
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Bob Young 
> <bobyoung53 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If you guys are talking about the two small round knobs 
>> for the bandspread
>> and main tuning those are original but usally missing 
>> with those radios,
>>
>> Bob
>> KB1OKL
>>
     They are ALL original.  The SP-400 had the same small 
knobs as the HQ-129-X, small round knobs for tuning and 
bandspread and chicken head knobs for everything else.  They 
also changed from engraved labels to silkscreened labels and 
the band indicator is on the panel with a large chicken head 
rather than the fluted knob with raised letters for 
indication.  I suppose this was partly because of post-war 
shortages but who knows now.  Hammarlund certainly switched 
around about knobs later; the extra-big ones on the SP-600 
and other models.
    I am pretty sure the transformer is also original. The 
military receivers had hermetically sealed potted 
transformers but the earlier civilian models had 
transformers like this one.  There should be two; driver and 
output.  The output transformer appears to be the sealed 
variety.  Its possible the driver transformer got replaced 
at some point but I suspect its original and the mis-match 
in cases just indicates how difficult parts were to obtain 
at the time.
    This is absolutely the cleanest Super-Pro I've ever 
seen.


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