[Hammarlund] Hammarlund Digest, Vol 172, Issue 4

Tue Mar 24 21:30:42 EDT 2020

    I wonder if there are any really early color photos of the 
129. The dials and meter (I have a meter) for my AR-88 are the 
same, the dials are tiger striped, alternately yellow and black. 
The color of both dials and the meter are consistent and other 
AR-88s I've seen were the same. So its possible H decided to make 
their meter a nice, restful yellow.

On 3/24/2020 5:21 PM, JThorusen wrote:
> 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
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>>> *Sent:* Monday, March 23, 2020 11:27 AM
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>>> *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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Richard Knoppow
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