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Hallicrafters S38-d NEW
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got this "another one" hallicrafters a couple days ago.
I will post a pic but... it was serviced already per the sales description.
radio worked well ,, actually better than my personal one with respect to short wave stations. on the low AM bands, this one seems to not have as much interference as my personal one and the one i am giving my son.

flip it over and i had to revert back to something i was told by my uncle Lester as a curious child..........
"scottie boy, if it aint broke, dont fix it".

i was so tempted because the work done was appreciated by me but ..... to say the least its risky to bump the radio or take the bottom cover off.
the leads of replacement parts are rather long and bare and generally wibbley wobbley if you jiggle the radio.

First check out of the box for these all american 5's is to insure you have NO CONTINUITY from the exterior chassis to the interior chassis. this one had continuity and thus the isolating insulating mounting feed was the fault.

I have no,, I MEAN NONE,, no idea whats going on here but...........
on my personal Hallicrafters i followed "s38guy" website instructions on how to "fix" the factory screw up gimik capacitor (BFO) and i can tune in just about any side band just fine with a lot of bandspread fine tuning.

on these two radios both had the normal BFO screwed up. i created the new gimik capacitor and did adjusted a couple other wires but these two radios dont have the ability to "as finely as mine" tune in the side bands.

the only difference is on my radio, i replace 100% of all old large caps and some resistors.

on these two sets, one is compeltely oem, the other is serviced but retains some paper/wax caps.


Messages In This Thread
Hallicrafters S38-d NEW - by jcassity - 11-11-2017, 10:54 AM
RE: Hallicrafters S38-d NEW - by OldRestorer - 11-11-2017, 01:24 PM
RE: Hallicrafters S38-d NEW - by jcassity - 11-11-2017, 05:31 PM
RE: Hallicrafters S38-d NEW - by jcassity - 11-11-2017, 05:32 PM
RE: Hallicrafters S38-d NEW - by jcassity - 11-12-2017, 01:58 PM
RE: Hallicrafters S38-d NEW - by jcassity - 11-17-2017, 06:09 AM
RE: Hallicrafters S38-d NEW - by oldswab37 - 12-27-2017, 04:03 PM



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