Hallicrafters T-54, 1948

[earlyfilm]

Originally Posted by Eric H

Hey David, I noticed something different between your chassis and mine.

It also looks like that decal I so laboriously restored is different on yours also.

Eric,

Your set is a late production, while David's Hallicrafters and my Delco are early productions.

And I just got a surprise seeing David's photo which included the patent sticker on his that I thought was unique to the Delco clone. His Hallicrafters also has the name "Hallicrafters ... Chicago" trimmed off the bottom of the sticker!

David's photos are on http://imgur.com/a/fUMgt#0

FYI Eric: I started converting your art to match my Delco, and will post when I finish.

James

[DavidGoncalv]

Crap - that reminds me I owe you the photos and text of the sticker under the CRT. Coming up tonight!

[DavidGoncalv]

What is the art you are talking about?

[Eric H]

Originally Posted by DavidGoncalv

What is the art you are talking about?

I believe he's referring to the picture i posted of the restored patent label for the Hallicrafters.

I hadn't thought of it as Art, at least not in the way Picasso is art...

[DavidGoncalv]

Here you go...

1.875" x 3"

[Einar72]

David, I noticed yours has .05 uF caps for Vertical deflection plate coupling. The Sams parts list (and photo) calls for .03. Do they look like they are replacements, or do they look undisturbed and original?

[Eric H]

Originally Posted by Einar72

David, I noticed yours has .05 uF caps for Vertical deflection plate coupling. The Sams parts list (and photo) calls for .03. Do they look like they are replacements, or do they look undisturbed and original?

Funny you should mention this because I have a question about the HV caps in these sets.

Mine had one .03 and one .005, the .005 was a replacement and way off on value, I don't know how well it would have worked?.
03@6000 is not an easy value to find but I picked up a few on eBay so those are covered.

My question is about the 500Pf (.0005Mf) Horizontal caps.
.0005@6000 is also not all that easy to find but I do have some .001's, or double the value.

Does anyone think those would be OK to use in the Horizontal circuit?
What would it affect, the width of the picture?

[DavidGoncalv]

I looked at it carefully - the solder joints looked clean and of similar sheen to the other joints. The caps have clamps, as you see, but they are not actually bolted to the chassis. Best I can tell is that they look original, and are the correct value from the older Rider sheet, despite this being a miniature-tube IF.

I actually gutted my 0.05 caps to take a set of caps to make that value.

Originally Posted by Einar72

David, I noticed yours has .05 uF caps for Vertical deflection plate coupling. The Sams parts list (and photo) calls for .03. Do they look like they are replacements, or do they look undisturbed and original?

[Eric H]

Originally Posted by DavidGoncalv

Here you go...

1.875" x 3"

Thank you!

In this case, since it's just text in what looks like a normal Font, it may be easier to create a new label using Word or Photoshop instead of trying to doctor the Photo.
The dark stains make it really hard to clean up.