Hallicrafters T-54 A request and a rambling story

[PaulOF]

Hi,
Do any of you have access to a parts list for a Hallicrafters T-54. I have PDF's of Riders and Sams but neither of them includes a parts list. I'm about to order caps for a Stewart-Warner that's been sitting around the house unplayable for too long, and after that I think I want to start on my T-54. I'd just as soon order everything at once, but I would prefer not to have to pore over the schematics trying to find them all.

Now the rambling story -- feel free to stop reading when you get bored.

This was the first TV my dad owned. I'm pretty sure he bought it the same year I was born, so both the tv and I are 66. It stopped working some time in the late 50's or early 60's. Around 1975 a friend and I, with more enthusiasm than sense, decided to see if we could get it working again. I dragged it into my advisor's lab at Drexel University, set it on an unused bench and we began.

Seriously ignorant of the properties of 28 year old paper caps, we only replaced the electrolytics and any other caps that were actually bad. The only electrolytics of the proper size that we could find locally (dang I wish I could find ANYTHING locally today) were in cans, so we wrapped them in balloons and covered them with many layers of friction tape. Finding the 0.05uF 6000V vertical coupling caps was a bit of a challenge, but we finally found them at Camden Radio in downtown Camden NJ. I am pretty sure we were more nervous about driving into downtown Camden than we were about the 6000 volts.

Anyway, we got it to the point where all the voltages were within spec and we had a pretty nice picture on the tube. Enjoyed turning it on from time to time and showing it off, but some time about a dozen years ago it stopped working.

So, my wife and I have been moving stuff out of a room so it can be repainted, and two of the things that we unearthed were the S-W mentioned above and the Hallicrafter's TV. She doesn't really want them to go back into the room until they are working, hence my desire to start ordering caps. I'll plan on doing it right this time. I only hope that the 7JP4 is still in good shape.