Hi
This looks like a sensible news group! who but sensible people
would want to repair and play with Old Knackered Radios )
Being a lonely Brit trying to refurbish an old American Radio
I'm a bit stuck, I have repaired the old girl and it works very
well after sitting in a garage for many years as a home for
spiders, But I can't seem to align it correctly in as much as
I can't get the osc to track the dial reading and keep it in
good spec across the band? also I'm a bit worried about the
bandspread dial, it reads 100 with the tuning cap fully in
this means as you go up from 0 to 100 you are going down in
frequency? is this right? or has someone strung the dial cord
incorrectly? do I align it with the bandspead cap fully meshed
or not? I could really do with the alignment instructions has
anyone got them out there? I've looked for a manual but they
either want lots of $ (whatever they are ) or the ones that
are available don't have the circuit or alignment details (
Also Are there any transfers or refurb material available
I'd love to respray it but don't want to lose the original
transfers or logo, any help very welcome
from Ron G3YUH

"Ron" wrote in message
...
Hi
This looks like a sensible news group! who but sensible people
would want to repair and play with Old Knackered Radios )
Being a lonely Brit trying to refurbish an old American Radio
I'm a bit stuck, I have repaired the old girl and it works very
well after sitting in a garage for many years as a home for
spiders, But I can't seem to align it correctly in as much as
I can't get the osc to track the dial reading and keep it in
good spec across the band? also I'm a bit worried about the
bandspread dial, it reads 100 with the tuning cap fully in
this means as you go up from 0 to 100 you are going down in
frequency? is this right? or has someone strung the dial cord
incorrectly? do I align it with the bandspead cap fully meshed
or not? I could really do with the alignment instructions has
anyone got them out there? I've looked for a manual but they
either want lots of $ (whatever they are ) or the ones that
are available don't have the circuit or alignment details (
Also Are there any transfers or refurb material available
I'd love to respray it but don't want to lose the original
transfers or logo, any help very welcome
from Ron G3YUH



I've never worked on this particular radio, but I believe it's similiar to
the S-40A, which I have.
The bandspread cap must be fully open to align the radio. The bandspread
dial might read "Set to zero for normal tuning". If so, it should be at
zero with the bandspread cap fully opened. Both knobs should close it's
respective tuning capacitor (lower frequency) when rotated counterclockwise.
I mention that because the dial stringing diagram is incorrect on my service
manual. The oscillator frequency is above the signal frequency on bands 1 -
3 and below it on band 4.

The BoatAnchor Manual Archive has the service manual online:

http://bama.sbc.edu/hallicra.htm

So, how hot does that ballast resistor get?

Frank Dresser

Hi Frank thanks for the info, I wish Bama did have the manual
but when I download what they say is the manual all I get
is a couple of pages on replacing the ballast resister (
from Ron....


On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 13:30:26 GMT, "Frank Dresser"
wrote:


"Ron" wrote in message
...
Hi
This looks like a sensible news group! who but sensible people
would want to repair and play with Old Knackered Radios )
Being a lonely Brit trying to refurbish an old American Radio
I'm a bit stuck, I have repaired the old girl and it works very
well after sitting in a garage for many years as a home for
spiders, But I can't seem to align it correctly in as much as
I can't get the osc to track the dial reading and keep it in
good spec across the band? also I'm a bit worried about the
bandspread dial, it reads 100 with the tuning cap fully in
this means as you go up from 0 to 100 you are going down in
frequency? is this right? or has someone strung the dial cord
incorrectly? do I align it with the bandspead cap fully meshed
or not? I could really do with the alignment instructions has
anyone got them out there? I've looked for a manual but they
either want lots of $ (whatever they are ) or the ones that
are available don't have the circuit or alignment details (
Also Are there any transfers or refurb material available
I'd love to respray it but don't want to lose the original
transfers or logo, any help very welcome
from Ron G3YUH



I've never worked on this particular radio, but I believe it's similiar to
the S-40A, which I have.
The bandspread cap must be fully open to align the radio. The bandspread
dial might read "Set to zero for normal tuning". If so, it should be at
zero with the bandspread cap fully opened. Both knobs should close it's
respective tuning capacitor (lower frequency) when rotated counterclockwise.
I mention that because the dial stringing diagram is incorrect on my service
manual. The oscillator frequency is above the signal frequency on bands 1 -
3 and below it on band 4.

The BoatAnchor Manual Archive has the service manual online:

http://bama.sbc.edu/hallicra.htm

So, how hot does that ballast resistor get?

Frank Dresser

"Ron" wrote in message
...

Hi Frank thanks for the info, I wish Bama did have the manual
but when I download what they say is the manual all I get
is a couple of pages on replacing the ballast resister (
from Ron....




The S-77 is described as the AC/DC version of the S-40B. The power supplies
are the major differences, the alignment instructions should be the same.
So, try downloading the S-40B manual, or any of the others from the S-40
series.

Frank Dresser

Also whilst on the subject of refurbing these old beasts are
there any new panel transfers available? so I could
have the front and cabinet resprayed and re lettered?
Like the Halicrafters logo and the red and white lettering
I've seen new dials for the R1155 so maybe someone
is producing these items?
from Ron...



On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 19:46:26 GMT, "Frank Dresser"
wrote:


"Ron" wrote in message
...

Hi Frank thanks for the info, I wish Bama did have the manual
but when I download what they say is the manual all I get
is a couple of pages on replacing the ballast resister (
from Ron....




The S-77 is described as the AC/DC version of the S-40B. The power supplies
are the major differences, the alignment instructions should be the same.
So, try downloading the S-40B manual, or any of the others from the S-40
series.

Frank Dresser

Ron wrote:

Also whilst on the subject of refurbing these old beasts are
there any new panel transfers available? so I could
have the front and cabinet resprayed and re lettered?
Like the Halicrafters logo and the red and white lettering
I've seen new dials for the R1155 so maybe someone
is producing these items?
from Ron...

RockSea Enterprises has the lettering for many of the Hallicrafters models.
http://members.aol.com/RockSeaEnt/

-Bill

Ron wrote:

Also whilst on the subject of refurbing these old beasts are
there any new panel transfers available? so I could
have the front and cabinet resprayed and re lettered?
Like the Halicrafters logo and the red and white lettering
I've seen new dials for the R1155 so maybe someone
is producing these items?
from Ron...

RockSea Enterprises has the lettering for many of the Hallicrafters models.
http://members.aol.com/RockSeaEnt/

-Bill

Also whilst on the subject of refurbing these old beasts are
there any new panel transfers available? so I could
have the front and cabinet resprayed and re lettered?
Like the Halicrafters logo and the red and white lettering
I've seen new dials for the R1155 so maybe someone
is producing these items?
from Ron...



On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 19:46:26 GMT, "Frank Dresser"
wrote:


"Ron" wrote in message
...

Hi Frank thanks for the info, I wish Bama did have the manual
but when I download what they say is the manual all I get
is a couple of pages on replacing the ballast resister (
from Ron....




The S-77 is described as the AC/DC version of the S-40B. The power supplies
are the major differences, the alignment instructions should be the same.
So, try downloading the S-40B manual, or any of the others from the S-40
series.

Frank Dresser

"Ron" wrote

Hi Frank thanks for the info, I wish Bama did have the manual
but when I download what they say is the manual all I get
is a couple of pages on replacing the ballast resister (
from Ron....

*** The manual on Bama is 13 pages of good quality copy,I have just
checked it.
Brian Goldsmith.

Yep you are right again it was my plug in, it has some sort
of bug in as much paging from 1 down it just circles round
the first three pages? If I start from the last page up then I
see the manual!! weird one.
All ok on the old S-77 it is one fine receiver now that its
realigned, I'm afraid I gave in and modified it slightly as it
kept blowing the mains trip in my house, I've fitted a
small mains transformer on the chassis above the smoothing
cap and rewired the heaters to parrallel from serial and
changed the audio and rect valves to 6.3 and it really is ace!
I've left all the original wiring in place, nothing chopped out
so it could easily be put back to original, thanks for all the
help.
from Ron g3yuh.....


On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 00:07:53 GMT, "Brian Goldsmith"
wrote:


"Ron" wrote

Hi Frank thanks for the info, I wish Bama did have the manual
but when I download what they say is the manual all I get
is a couple of pages on replacing the ballast resister (
from Ron....

*** The manual on Bama is 13 pages of good quality copy,I have just
checked it.
Brian Goldsmith.