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SX-88 on Ebay
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Just when we thought they were all gone .. here's the perfect gift for the SWL on your shopping list. |
LW wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=3062660622 Just when we thought they were all gone .. here's the perfect gift for the SWL on your shopping list. I think I bid on it around the $3000 level, I can't remember! Alas, it's not to be. But it's a nice receiver, and well maintained is surely to increase in value. If I recall correctly, Joe Walsh, WB6ACU, bid on one and it went for a very high price. Steve Holland, MI Drake R7, R8 and R8B http://www.iserv.net/~n8kdv/dxpage.htm |
LW wrote:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=3062660622 Just when we thought they were all gone .. here's the perfect gift for the SWL on your shopping list. They made about '500' of them. There are about '76' known to exist. The question is what happened to more than '400'? I can't believe all of those are really gone. If had one, I probably wouldn't advertise it either. The pictures of the one on Ebay show that it still has the original paper capacitors, such as the 'Tiny Chiefs' and 'Black Beauties'. Since these caps' are notoriously leaky, should an owner take a chance on running a very valuable radio like the '88' and possibly damaging an irreplacable part such as an I.F. transformer? OTOH, would it lessen the value of the radio if it was recapped to make it safer to run? BTW- The SX-88 cost about $3800 in today's dollars when it sold for $600 in 1955. Joe Walsh (The Eagles) payed $10,000 for his. I guess he wanted it real bad. I wonder what he did with it? -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
N8KDV wrote ...
If I recall correctly, Joe Walsh, WB6ACU, bid on one and it went for a very high price. Yep, if I recall that one went over $7500.00. There was a bidding war in the closing minutes of the auction. Joe lost but it was close. May Santa bring one to all the SWL's who've been good this past year. ( It's free to wish, ain't it ? ) |
LW wrote: N8KDV wrote ... If I recall correctly, Joe Walsh, WB6ACU, bid on one and it went for a very high price. Yep, if I recall that one went over $7500.00. There was a bidding war in the closing minutes of the auction. Joe lost but it was close. He did win one, and it went for $10,000. I just looked it up on Google. May Santa bring one to all the SWL's who've been good this past year. ( It's free to wish, ain't it ? ) |
starman wrote: LW wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=3062660622 Just when we thought they were all gone .. here's the perfect gift for the SWL on your shopping list. They made about '500' of them. There are about '76' known to exist. The question is what happened to more than '400'? I can't believe all of those are really gone. If had one, I probably wouldn't advertise it either. The pictures of the one on Ebay show that it still has the original paper capacitors, such as the 'Tiny Chiefs' and 'Black Beauties'. Since these caps' are notoriously leaky, should an owner take a chance on running a very valuable radio like the '88' and possibly damaging an irreplacable part such as an I.F. transformer? OTOH, would it lessen the value of the radio if it was recapped to make it safer to run? BTW- The SX-88 cost about $3800 in today's dollars when it sold for $600 in 1955. Joe Walsh (The Eagles) payed $10,000 for his. I guess he wanted it real bad. I wonder what he did with it? I believe he has at least 7 operating positions in his home. He gets into old radios, and CW. I sold him some FT-243 crystals a few years back. He sent me a personalized autographed copy of "Hell Freezes Over" a picture and some personal guitar pics. He's a nice guy, talked to him on the phone once too. Steve Holland, MI Drake R7, R8 and R8B http://www.iserv.net/~n8kdv/dxpage.htm -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
starman wrote:
BTW- The SX-88 cost about $3800 in today's dollars when it sold for $600 in 1955. Joe Walsh (The Eagles) payed $10,000 for his. I guess he wanted it real bad. I wonder what he did with it? Pulled all the tubes to make a guitar amp and trashed the rest? |
starman wrote:
LW wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=3062660622 Just when we thought they were all gone .. here's the perfect gift for the SWL on your shopping list. They made about '500' of them. There are about '76' known to exist. The question is what happened to more than '400'? I can't believe all of those are really gone. If had one, I probably wouldn't advertise it either. I once saw a website that said that about 2% of the total production of tube gear made in the US or UK has survived. The site was devoted to prewar TVs from both US and UK and it noted that only a couple hundred prewar TVs from either country are known to exist today, and that given total production (I don't remember exact numbers) that those numbers are about 2% of total production, just like the formula says. It went on to say that an undiscovered prewar TV would be of comparable rarity to an undiscovered original Stradivarius (sp?) violin. I would suspect that the same is true of the SX88. |
"tommyknocker" wrote in message ... I once saw a website that said that about 2% of the total production of tube gear made in the US or UK has survived. The site was devoted to prewar TVs from both US and UK and it noted that only a couple hundred prewar TVs from either country are known to exist today, and that given total production (I don't remember exact numbers) that those numbers are about 2% of total production, just like the formula says. What ever the total figure is, I'm sure it's mostly made up of low end products. The high end stuff like SX-88s are far more likely to be kept around. It went on to say that an undiscovered prewar TV would be of comparable rarity to an undiscovered original Stradivarius (sp?) violin. I would suspect that the same is true of the SX88. Stradivarius should have come to Chicago and talked with Bill Halligan. Bill's factory at Fifth and Kostner would have turned out millions of beginner violins, concert quality violins, mil-spec cellos, anything people would pay for. I would suspect most of the SX-88 owners don't want themselves or their radios on the lists. Frank Dresser |
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