Anyone in S. Florida Area can recap/align?

[Count Floyd[_2_]]

Hi,
I am getting a Hammarlund HQ-145 receiver that will most likely need
recapping and aligning. I am in Martin County, near Stuart, but not
far from Palm Beach County.
Thanks,
Bob Grimes
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[Tio Pedro]

"Count Floyd" > wrote in message
news:BJ4mQCBKg9HM-pn2-3qZCj1epCkWQ@localhost...
> Hi,
> I am getting a Hammarlund HQ-145 receiver that will most likely need
> recapping and aligning. I am in Martin County, near Stuart, but not
> far from Palm Beach County.
> Thanks,
> Bob Grimes
> --
>

Ain't much to recap in that one.

Pete

[Count Floyd[_2_]]

On Thu, 22 May 2008 00:02:02 UTC, "Tio Pedro"
> wrote:

>
> "Count Floyd" > wrote in message
> news:BJ4mQCBKg9HM-pn2-3qZCj1epCkWQ@localhost...
> > Hi,
> > I am getting a Hammarlund HQ-145 receiver that will most likely need
> > recapping and aligning. I am in Martin County, near Stuart, but not
> > far from Palm Beach County.
> > Thanks,
> > Bob Grimes
> > --
> >
>
> Ain't much to recap in that one.
>
> Pete
How So?
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[Tio Pedro]

"Count Floyd" > wrote in message
news:BJ4mQCBKg9HM-pn2-RFEOUg38MuC2@localhost...
> On Thu, 22 May 2008 00:02:02 UTC, "Tio Pedro"
> > wrote:
>
>>
>> "Count Floyd" > wrote in
>> message
>> news:BJ4mQCBKg9HM-pn2-3qZCj1epCkWQ@localhost...
>> > Hi,
>> > I am getting a Hammarlund HQ-145 receiver that will most likely need
>> > recapping and aligning. I am in Martin County, near Stuart, but not
>> > far from Palm Beach County.
>> > Thanks,
>> > Bob Grimes
>> > --
>> >
>>
>> Ain't much to recap in that one.
>>
>> Pete
> How So?

Except for the filter caps, mostly disc ceramic caps IIRC.

Pete

[Tio Pedro]

"Count Floyd" > wrote in message
news:BJ4mQCBKg9HM-pn2-RFEOUg38MuC2@localhost...
> On Thu, 22 May 2008 00:02:02 UTC, "Tio Pedro"
> > wrote:
>
>>
>> "Count Floyd" > wrote in
>> message
>> news:BJ4mQCBKg9HM-pn2-3qZCj1epCkWQ@localhost...
>> > Hi,
>> > I am getting a Hammarlund HQ-145 receiver that will most likely need
>> > recapping and aligning. I am in Martin County, near Stuart, but not
>> > far from Palm Beach County.
>> > Thanks,
>> > Bob Grimes
>> > --
>> >
>>
>> Ain't much to recap in that one.
>>
>> Pete
> How So?


BTW, that chassis ain't FUSED!!! First order of business.

[Phil Nelson]

You could contact an area radio collector club and request a recommendation
for a repairman in your neck of the woods.

http://www.antiqueradio.com/clublist.html

Phil Nelson
Phil's Old Radios
http://antiqueradio.org/index.html

[Jon Teske]

On Wed, 21 May 2008 20:18:51 -0400, "Tio Pedro"
> wrote:

>
>"Count Floyd" > wrote in message
>news:BJ4mQCBKg9HM-pn2-RFEOUg38MuC2@localhost...
>> On Thu, 22 May 2008 00:02:02 UTC, "Tio Pedro"
>> > wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> "Count Floyd" > wrote in
>>> message
>>> news:BJ4mQCBKg9HM-pn2-3qZCj1epCkWQ@localhost...
>>> > Hi,
>>> > I am getting a Hammarlund HQ-145 receiver that will most likely need
>>> > recapping and aligning. I am in Martin County, near Stuart, but not
>>> > far from Palm Beach County.
>>> > Thanks,
>>> > Bob Grimes
>>> > --
>>> >
>>>
>>> Ain't much to recap in that one.
>>>
>>> Pete
>> How So?
>
>Except for the filter caps, mostly disc ceramic caps IIRC

That is correct. When I recapped mine, I just had to replace the three
capacitors inside a multi-capacitor can. Two of them were ca. 500
volts in the 40-60 mfd range and were the filter capacitors. In the
same can was a 50 volt capacitor, I think 10 or 20 mfd which was part
of the audio circuit to the 6AQ5. I just replaced them with discrete
components. Everything else I could find were disk ceramics.
After I recapped, I couldn't get the thing to work and was somewhat
frustrated by this as all the voltages etc checked out and I had done
all the tube substitution. What I forgot was that when I took it out
of its case I removed a jumper between the prongs of the relay output.
You either need a jumper, or and actual send/receive relay contacts or
it won't work.
Duh. I discovered this when I got the schematic for the version I
actually had. There was a small modification in mid production when
Hammarlund changed from a tube rectifier (5U4 family) to diodes and I
had a schematic of a later version than the one I had. I the
schematic (got off of BAMA or some website like that) there was some
text which said you had to have the jumper (or relay) or the radio
wouldn't work. I don't remember what the relay controled, it might
have lifted the center tap of the power transformer. I'll have to look
at the schematic again. Recapping was about a 30 minute job, mostly
just figuring out where to mount the caps. I added a 4 our 5 tab
terminal strip with one of the tabs going to chassis ground.

I haven't used the radio at all really. I got it in a rather funny way
about 12 years ago. I went to buy a Heath SB-200 amp that a ham was
selling on behalf of the estate of a Silent Key. I was trying to
negotiate the price downward a bit in the spirit of ham horse trading.
So the fellow agreed to my price which was about $50.00 under the
asking price. He agreed to the lower price by said "But if I give you
that price, you're going to have to take this old receiver off of my
hands and he gave it to me. The few times I have had an antenna on
it, it seemed to work fine, but my memory of how old tube radios work
is a bit dim and these old radios don't have the bells and whistles of
the modern ICOM equipment I have in my actual working shack. A crystal
filter is no match for modern filters of DSP.

Unfortunately I don't have much of a junk box now to throw together a
simple CW transmitter, something I did fairly often when I was a kid
(I was licensed at age 13, I'm now 66.) Maybe I'll have to get into
this as I am leaving another hobby...sailing. My boat was just sunk by
two huge oak trees falling on it while at a dock.

Jon W3JT
Maryland