[Hammarlund] Hammarlund Digest, Vol 172, Issue 4

Tue Mar 24 20:21:15 EDT 2020

Greetings to Ray and the list:

   To answer one of your questions below:

   The S-meter was a dark yellow (could be described as orange) in 1963 when 
I got my first HQ-129.   I think that is the way they were from the factory. 
Same with the Johnson Ranger meter scale card.   I think it was a style of 
the time.

   As far as re-painting the dial bezel is concerned, I think a custom 
silk-screen would have to be made to do the job.   If you find anyone who is 
capable of restoring / re-painting one of these, please let me know.   I'd 
like to get mine done as well.

73,
Jim T.
KB6GM
jthorusen at centcoast.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ray LaRue" <w4byg at att.net>
To: <Hammarlund at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 16:33
Subject: Re: [Hammarlund] Hammarlund Digest, Vol 172, Issue 4

My 129X is apparently an early model because it does not have 15 meter
band spreading.

The panel is in very good condition and has nice clear white lettering,
but the escutcheon around the dials looks to have some spots in the
paint, which appear to be small flakes off of the krinkle paint. It
shouldn't be much of a problem to remove the escutcheon and repaint it.
However that would cover the numerals for the antenna comp.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to replace those numbers so they
look much like the other nomenclatures on the panel?

In addition, the S-meter window is quite orange in color. Is that
original? Or that just the result of old age plastic?

Your attention is appreciated.
Ray, W4BYG

On 3/23/2020 5:07 PM, Richard Knoppow wrote:
> FWIW, the dials on my 129 are not yellowed but the dial window is. I
> need to make new windows, does not look difficult. I just have too
> much going on to get to it.
> Sometime I will find replacement dials for my HQ-120-X The original
> dials have delaminated. Not fixable, have to be replaced. This set was
> worked over by someone before I got it. Without tuning dials that work
> its hard to know if the receiver works right.
>
> On 3/23/2020 11:53 AM, A R wrote:
>> Very curious.
>> I have one early 129-X with the red panel lettering, and two later
>> production with the white lettering. Here's the curious thing:
>> Later production with s/n 14200 does NOT have the 15m bandspread.
>> The earlier late production s/n 13777 DOES have the 15m bandspread.
>> Both of the later production models have main and bandspread dials
>> that are not discolored (yellowed).
>> I suppose it's possible that s/n 13777 was retrofitted by an owner
>> before I took possession with the b/s dial with 15m legend. Do you
>> know if Hammarlund offered replacement b/s dials with the 15m scale?
>>
>> Allen--W7GIF
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>> *From:* hammarlund-bounces at mailman.qth.net
>> <hammarlund-bounces at mailman.qth.net> on behalf of Richard Knoppow
>> <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>
>> *Sent:* Monday, March 23, 2020 11:27 AM
>> *To:* hammarlund at mailman.qth.net <hammarlund at mailman.qth.net>
>> *Subject:* Re: [Hammarlund] Hammarlund Digest, Vol 172, Issue 4
>> FWIW, the official designation for frequency became Hertz in
>> 1960.
>>
>> On 3/23/2020 11:22 AM, Richard Knoppow wrote:
>> > I wonder if any HQ-129-X were made with 15 meter dials. I
>> > think they had already replaced the 129 with the 140 by then.
>> > Possibly there were replacement dials but I have never seen
>> > anything in the literature about them Of course, the 129 works
>> > fine on 15 meters, you just have to make a logging scale for it.
>>
>> -- 
>> Richard Knoppow
>> 1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
>> WB6KBL
>>
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