[Arran]

Well Mike and Sam came over yesterday and hung out for a good while. Made burgers on the grill. After getting the grand tour they called me a four letter name "Kirk"not commander just Kirk. The up shot of this is I felt need to get busy  and fix some of this junk I been gathering.

A few months ago I attend an auction in which one of the many things that follow me home was a National HRO Senior.
For those who don't know what it is here's an article about them:
http://www.radioblvd.com/National%20HRO.htm
Production started at the end of 1934 ran into the mid 1960's. They had a long and glorious run. Many where sent to the UK under the lend lease program during WWII to intercept German code messages. We used a bunch of them here too.


This one I got at the auction was painted a pale green. It wouldn't let me take any pics of as it was too embarrassed! Original it was black wrinkle. Along with being green it also had a  number extra holes in side and front panel. One just a hair bigger than an octal socket. You know what Kermit sez It's hard being green!

So after M and S left I though I why not get started on it. Started in on getting the cabinet off and after an hour of removing rusty screws ( tnx for the blaster S) knobs and the S meter it was apart. The good news (kinda) it's been recaped probably in the 1960's. Unfortuity I don't have the originals to restuff. Always like the look of a set that doesn't look like it's had a bunch of stuff done to it. With the metal case off I took into work removed a lot of the green paint. Back at home I made the patch pieces to repair the holes and use lead to secure them. Still have two more to go but I'm hoping to get them in sanded ,bondoed sanded and ready for primer tomorrow. Work has been a little slow.

The L76 is the serial # and it tells me that it was produced Feb '36. It probably didn't see any over seas action in WWII but still an almost 80yr old set.

More later if you like
Terry

Terry;
  That HRO sounds like a good candidate for the electrolysis rust and paint stripping treatment, as long as the front panel is steel and not aluminum. I had a post war National 100 with the windshield wiper style dial, it was a U.S army spec model called a "100ASD" so it did not have the AM broadcast band except the upper end down to 1500 KC. A fellow collector convinced me that I paid too much for it, which I may have, but I wish that I had kept it just the same.
That article you linked to brought up some memories, they mentioned a Breting 12, well I haven't run across one of those but I did run across a Breting 14 locally in a shop, unfortunately the owner had some ridiculous pasted on it, on the logic that their adding one new filter cap and a home brew speaker should make it worth $450. Maybe the Breting will surface again one day for a much more realistic price.
Regards
Arran