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03-28-2006, 11:44 AM
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Hallicrafters T-54 / SX-62 Finished (with help)
I want to thank various forum members for their assistance with my first two restore projects. Especially Ken M and Sandy G.
What do you do with the rigs after you have finished tweaking them? Gary G. 
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03-28-2006, 12:25 PM
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Whaddya do w/'em after you've finished 'em ? Well, I play about all of my radios regularly-and when people come by, I'll fire up one of the TVs...Enjoy 'em ! Everybody I know says to run the radios frequently.
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03-28-2006, 12:37 PM
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hi grayga,
part of the fun after restoring them is listening to them.  just sit back with your favorite beverage and enjoy the sounds from a faraway land.you also gotta love the sound of the sx 62 with its pushpull audio stage just make sure you hook it up to a nice 12' coaxial driver if you have one to make it really sing.i use to have a sx 62a it was my first tube s/w receiver and the one that got me hooked on the old boatanchors.enjoy  the tv is also nice and you sure dont see many of those around anymore.i might have a ad for it in an old radio amatures handbook that i can dig up and scan if you'd like. chris
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03-28-2006, 08:29 PM
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Chris,
I have a short stack of memorabilia next to the rigs. Especially stuff around WWII time showing the period hams were off the air and then back on. I have the '47, '48 & '49 Halli catalogs. But ads are cool and varied. So yes, I would appreciate having the ad from the Handbook. Thanks! Gary
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03-28-2006, 12:57 PM
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That's a beautiful set. The cabinet looks in nice condition. If I had one of those my wife would never let it in the living room. She doesn't go for the ham shack / test equipment look. What do you do with it now? Keep it, enjoy it, inflict it on your friends and any other disinterested parties. Congratulations on a job well done.
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03-28-2006, 01:00 PM
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That shortwave set looks great too. I have a Hallicrafters S-53A that I absolutely love. It took a lot of work to restore but has been well worth it. The performance from all the Hallicrafters sets is excellent and they're built like tanks.
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03-28-2006, 07:55 PM
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Nice looking sets. With vintage TVs, as well as boatanchors, I think it's useful to at least warm them up once a month or so. Keep moisture out of places where it doesn't belong, keep the controls free and lubed, etc.
I confess that I don't do that with every single radio & TV in the house, but I would if I were a better person! TVs are more susceptible to backsliding, so I would at least fire it up the day before, say, a big party where you want to show Psycho or whatever on your "just restored" TV. Might avoid that embarrassing Poof! in front of friends :-)
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03-28-2006, 08:06 PM
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The TV I'm sure, but methinks both of those were designed by Raymond Loewy, one of the great industrial designers of the 1930s-'40s. He designed the "coming-or-going" Studebaker of the late '40s, the '53 coupe, & the '62 Avanti, and did the color scheme/layout for Air Force One for JFK. They still use basically the same design on the present 747, but I think it looked better on the 707, which is what it was designed for. He was a cultured man who had an innate sense of how things should "look".
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