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There are a number of these available on ebay and elsewhere. I have even had one shipped over 600 miles successfully.
The best way to do it, in my opinion, is to search out sets in excellent cosmetic shape but in need of work electronically. They go cheap and when you finish them, they're like new.
Hammarlund is a fine radio of its time; their later SS models from
the late sixties/early seventies are simply not in the same league, however.
These radios are less common than the Hallicrafters sets they competed with...And honestly I prefer them to Hcrafters. The few HC I own aren't as sensitive or nice-sounding. SX-110, S-38, SX-99.
The -110 had a slipping dial string that I never got right...the tuning shafts had that mirror-like wear on the brass and wouldn't grip even a new string. Tried "roughing up" the metal like someone suggested, with sandpaper, and also beeswax'd the path...
Still as useless and crotchety as President Joe Skeleton, failing to catch in most spots.
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