Hallicrafters S-53A

[jbpollock]

I picked up a Hallicrafters S-53A table top shortwave radio at a garage sale this morning. Brought it home and the power cord was only about a foot long and obviously repaired. Went to plug it in and got a large spark between the two sides of the plug. Got it plugged in despite the spark (stupid I know) and it did power on. No sound, and only left it on for a minute. It looked like all but maybe 1 of the tubes was glowing. Anyway, the selector switch on the back was set to headphone rather than speaker. I went to plug it in again to see if this was causing the silence, but got another spark and decided not to plug it in again. (It was turned off by the way).

Anyway, any opinions on wheter or not a new power cord will solve this problem?