Fair Recap Price........
 

What would be considered a fair price
to have a Hammarlund 129X with the
Heathkit Q- Multiplier recapped and a
new power chord put on it.

I've found a local fella that said he would
do it for a good price. He has some real nice and real old :-) BCB
tube radios ie;
Zenith and some floor consoles available
for pretty reasonable prices.

If he does a good job on my Hammarlund
I think I may take one of his consoles off
his hands. I've always wanted a big
floor console. :-) Brenda Ann?

Fair Recap Price........
 

"Gregg" wrote in message
...
What would be considered a fair price
to have a Hammarlund 129X with the
Heathkit Q- Multiplier recapped and a
new power chord put on it.

I've found a local fella that said he would
do it for a good price. He has some real nice and real old :-) BCB
tube radios ie;
Zenith and some floor consoles available
for pretty reasonable prices.

If he does a good job on my Hammarlund
I think I may take one of his consoles off
his hands. I've always wanted a big
floor console. :-) Brenda Ann?

Don't know what you're asking for my comment on. I have no idea what a fair
price for a full recap would be.. you know how I work (at a loss,
generally.. :) )

Love those old Zenith (and Philco) consoles. I have a nice Philco 39-116
here, complete with the LF wireless remote. That was fun.. had it shipped
broken down into something like 40 pieces (mostly cabinet, but the dial
mech, speaker, tubes and chassis were all shipped separately as well). Took
me something like 2 months to reassemble all of it, after reworking the
chassis. Darn fine performer, though.

Fair Recap Price........
 

On Jul 28, 7:28*am, "Brenda Ann" wrote:
"Gregg" wrote in message

...

What would be considered a fair price
to have a Hammarlund 129X with the
Heathkit Q- Multiplier recapped and a
new power chord put on it.

I've found a local fella that said he would
do it for a good price. He has some real nice and real old :-) BCB
tube radios ie;
Zenith and some floor consoles available
for pretty reasonable prices.

If he does a good job on my Hammarlund
I think I may take one of his consoles off
his hands. I've always wanted a big
floor console. :-) Brenda Ann?

Don't know what you're asking for my comment on. *I have no idea what a fair
price for a full recap would be.. you know how I work (at a loss,
generally.. :) )

Love those old Zenith (and Philco) consoles. *I have a nice Philco 39-116
here, complete with the LF wireless remote. That was fun.. had it shipped
broken down into something like 40 pieces (mostly cabinet, but the dial
mech, speaker, tubes and chassis were all shipped separately as well). Took
me something like 2 months to reassemble all of it, after reworking the
chassis. Darn fine performer, though.

I just threw in your name..........just because. :-D
What would be a fair price to have my Hammarlund
recapped and a new power chord put on?

You should see some of his radios, really nice.
I'll throw you a link later today to your email.

Fair Recap Price........
 

Very simple job to recap an HQ-129X. If the "local guy" is savvy on his
parts sources he should be able to buy all fresh caps (even custom made
multi-cap cans) for $25. I've recapped a '129X in a single evening...1 to 2
hours. The bigger question is will he also realign it? THAT can be where the
time starts piling up but it's an essential part because with new fresh
electrolytics and paper caps you are changing the dynamic parameters of
everything in the receiver. Also the high value resistors are probably way
out of tolerance by now and need to be checked, which doesn't mean checking
them with an ohmeter cold; they often need to be warmed up to operating
temperature to see the effective resistance drift from their design
resistance.

The power cord project is a 5 minute job. Since the '129X is not an AC-DC
receiver make sure he replaces the power cord with a 3-wire.

There are a lot of guys out there who call themselves repairmen who are
actually just
cosmetologists. Making an old receiver "look good" is a very small part of
it and it would behoove
you to try to ascertain that this individual knows his stuff went he starts
dicing and slicing inside.

Good luck.

WA9VLK

Fair Recap Price........
 

Very simple job to recap an HQ-129X. If the "local guy" is savvy on his
parts sources he should be able to buy all fresh caps (even custom made
multi-cap cans) for $25. I've recapped a '129X in a single evening...1 to 2
hours. The bigger question is will he also realign it? THAT can be where the
time starts piling up but it's an essential part because with new fresh
electrolytics and paper caps you are changing the dynamic parameters of
everything in the receiver. Also the high value resistors are probably way
out of tolerance by now and need to be checked, which doesn't mean checking
them with an ohmmeter cold; they often need to be warmed up to operating
temperature to see the effective resistance drift from their design
resistance.

The power cord project is a 5 minute job. Since the '129X is not an AC-DC
receiver make sure he replaces the power cord with a 3-wire.

There are a lot of guys out there who call themselves repairmen who are
actually just
cosmetologists. Making an old receiver "look good" is a very small part of
it and it would behoove
you to try to ascertain that this individual knows his stuff went he starts
dicing and slicing inside.

Good luck.

WA9VLK