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

[Bob Young]

Yes the chickhead knobs are the same as on mine right down to the white line on the pointer. If that thing had been there a few more days I would have grabbed it, that unpotted driver transformer does look like the unpotted ones in SP-200's.

Bob
KB1OKL

> From: 1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
> To: ka1kaq at gmail.com; bobyoung53 at hotmail.com
> CC: hammarlund at mailman.qth.net; djed1 at aol.com
> Subject: Re: [Hammarlund] time capsule SP-400X (Bob Young)
> Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:45:01 -0700
> 
> 
> ----- 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.
> 
> 
> --
> Richard Knoppow
> Los Angeles
> WB6KBL
> dickburk at ix.netcom.com 
>