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Now here is a real radio!
.... to think in my younger days, I tore such equipment apart to
salvage components for use in projects... .... still, its' best use will be on movie sets for setting the atmosphere of the time period of the set... John "beerbarrel" wrote in message ... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=5790213538 very pricey though! |
Nice radio,but too much money for the amount of bread.When I drove a
bread truck for Sunbeam bakery a hundred years ago,we used to put Sunbeam sandwich bread in the Star foodstores and on the back ends of the loaves of bread,with a magic marker,we marked them all 2/39.(Two loaves of bread for thirty nine cents) Take a look at what one loaf of sandwich bread cost nowdays.Know why Little Miss Sunbeam can't get pregnant? No holes,Sunbeam bread is batter whipped,hence,No holes. cuhulin |
Lovely radio....nice to see them still going strong
Now if I buy the radio can I still afford a good divorce lawyer???? Shawn "John Smith" wrote in message ... ... to think in my younger days, I tore such equipment apart to salvage components for use in projects... ... still, its' best use will be on movie sets for setting the atmosphere of the time period of the set... John "beerbarrel" wrote in message ... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=5790213538 very pricey though! |
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:31:17 -0400, beerbarrel
wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=5790213538 very pricey though! No ''Bristo'' wrench? |
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 16:07:25 -0700, "John Smith"
wrote: ... to think in my younger days, I tore such equipment apart to salvage components for use in projects... ... still, its' best use will be on movie sets for setting the atmosphere of the time period of the set... John "beerbarrel" wrote in message .. . http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=5790213538 very pricey though! It's the best performing raw AM receiver available for such a paltry sum. Those things kick ass. Power hogs, unfortunately. |
David wrote: On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:31:17 -0400, beerbarrel wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=5790213538 very pricey though! No ''Bristo'' wrench? Bristol? dxAce Michigan USA http://www.iserv.net/~n8kdv/dxpage.htm |
Oh my gawd yes, state-of-the-art!!!
.... 60 years ago or so... John "David" wrote in message ... On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 16:07:25 -0700, "John Smith" wrote: ... to think in my younger days, I tore such equipment apart to salvage components for use in projects... ... still, its' best use will be on movie sets for setting the atmosphere of the time period of the set... John "beerbarrel" wrote in message . .. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=5790213538 very pricey though! It's the best performing raw AM receiver available for such a paltry sum. Those things kick ass. Power hogs, unfortunately. |
Are you sure you want to divorce her? She will probaly wind up cleaning
your clock.Buy that radio for me. cuhulin |
Bristol used to make nice cars in limeyland.About five years ago,I was
email chatting with Rosie in Lima,Ohio about Bristol cars. cuhulin |
John Smith wrote:
Oh my gawd yes, state-of-the-art!!! ... 60 years ago or so... John You should try one some time. One of the most respected radios ever built. Ones in good unrestored condition cost considerably less. |
"John Smith" wrote in message ... Oh my gawd yes, state-of-the-art!!! ... 60 years ago or so... Do you have some kind of problem with anything of any quality or character? Yes, the new stuff is small, light, etc.. and has lots of modes and such.. but it's almost uniformly garbage. And paying more money doesn't guarantee anything.. look at the Satellit 800. Back in the day, the cheap 'crap' of the day was so much better quality and built to last many times longer than the best there is today. "Progress" isn't always good. |
Oh.
I thought it clear from my previous post, I have had one in functioning order before, lots of hallicrafter rigs too... An uncle living in the midwest had a few army surplus stores, years ago. He had buildings full of that stuff--I used to go though it and could have for the asking... But he http://www.monteriallc.com/spectrum/receivers.htm you will find radio technology to blow it away... John "Mark S. Holden" wrote in message ... John Smith wrote: Oh my gawd yes, state-of-the-art!!! ... 60 years ago or so... John You should try one some time. One of the most respected radios ever built. Ones in good unrestored condition cost considerably less. |
Yeah,you said a mouthfull there,Brenda Ann.I would like to own that
radio,there are a lot of other things I would like to own too.I am saving up for a Sony Location Free TV Base Station.(the device,not the gal,I can get one of them the next street over for free) Check em out at www.smarthome.com cuhulin |
I own a nice working Hallicrafters S-38 EB radio.It is sitting on top of
my big old antique trunk in my dining room.I bought it for $4.00 at a Goodwill store about seven years ago.It isn't for sale for love or money.Yeah,I own a bunch of real good old radios (two of them are floor model radios) I bought real cheap over the years. cuhulin |
John Smith wrote:
Oh my gawd yes, state-of-the-art!!! ... 60 years ago or so... That radio will hear things that no modern radio can - noise floor is incredible. -- Brian Denley http://home.comcast.net/~b.denley/index.html |
"Brian Denley" wrote in message ... John Smith wrote: Oh my gawd yes, state-of-the-art!!! ... 60 years ago or so... That radio will hear things that no modern radio can - noise floor is incredible. -- Brian Denley http://home.comcast.net/~b.denley/index.html True. And the ears that receiver has may only be possible with tubes? At this point in history that is. -- 73 and good DX. B.H. Brian's Radio Universe http://webpages.charter.net/brianhill/500.htm |
cuhulin, what bakery did you work from. My father and uncles worked at
the Sanitary Baking Co. in Clarksburg, Wv back from the 50s till about 1966. |
Koestler's Sunbeam Bakery that used to be in Vicksburg,Mississippi.There
was trucks that brought the bread and cake products to the relay store on JR Lynch Street in Jackson early,early in the morning.I drove a Sunbeam bread delivery truck on my bread route in the Jackson metro area from 1966 to 1971.The cake products were made at Wolf's bakery in Hattiesburg,Mississippi.The old Sunbeam bakery in Vicksburg closd down years ago.I don't know if Wolf's is still in operation nowdays or not.An old saying goes,Don't say Bread,say Sunbeam. cuhulin |
beerbarrel wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=5790213538 very pricey though! Yeah, the reserve and buy it now are the same ($3500). Cabinet is an extra $600. Very nice though. dxAce Michigan USA http://www.iserv.net/~n8kdv/dxpage.htm |
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 20:02:24 -0400, dxAce
wrote: David wrote: On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:31:17 -0400, beerbarrel wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=5790213538 very pricey though! No ''Bristo'' wrench? Bristol? dxAce Michigan USA http://www.iserv.net/~n8kdv/dxpage.htm That's what Xcelite calls them (part Number 99-66). My Army repair manual repeatedly refers to them as ''Bristo'' however. |
David wrote: On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 20:02:24 -0400, dxAce wrote: David wrote: On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:31:17 -0400, beerbarrel wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=5790213538 very pricey though! No ''Bristo'' wrench? Bristol? dxAce Michigan USA http://www.iserv.net/~n8kdv/dxpage.htm That's what Xcelite calls them (part Number 99-66). My Army repair manual repeatedly refers to them as ''Bristo'' however. A typo. dxAce Michigan USA |
On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 10:02:30 -0400, dxAce
wrote: A typo. dxAce Michigan USA The Army never makes mistakes. |
David wrote: On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 10:02:30 -0400, dxAce wrote: A typo. dxAce Michigan USA The Army never makes mistakes. Sure they do... we all do. Take your mama for instance... dxAce Michigan USA http://www.iserv.net/~n8kdv/dxpage.htm |
"Brenda Ann" wrote in message ... "John Smith" wrote in message ... Oh my gawd yes, state-of-the-art!!! ... 60 years ago or so... Do you have some kind of problem with anything of any quality or character? Yes, the new stuff is small, light, etc.. and has lots of modes and such.. but it's almost uniformly garbage. And paying more money doesn't guarantee anything.. look at the Satellit 800. By historical standards, the Sat 800 isn't so expensive. Back in the 50s, a mid-level receiver would run around $100 to $150. I'm sure it takes fewer hours of work to afford a good performing radio today. Back in the day, the cheap 'crap' of the day was so much better quality and built to last many times longer than the best there is today. Quality as defined how? Selectivity and sensitivity have never been less expensive. The old radios needed repairs and I'm sure we both have replaced plenty of leaky paper caps, drifted carbon comp resistors and tubes. Yes, the old radios were more repairable. They were made mostly with standard parts and built by hand. "Progress" isn't always good. Imagine you could go back fifty years and had hundreds of thousands of modern radios to sell, all at inflation corrected prices. Who would be interested in the then current radios? Well, I suppose they'd be even more interested in how you and all those radios got there. But that subject is more on-topic in rec.time.machine. Frank Dresser |
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beerbarrel wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=5790213538 very pricey though! Seems as though it was dropped from auction. dxAce Michigan USA |
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