Hallicrafters T-54 / SX-62 Finished (with help)
 

I want to thank various forum members for their assistance with my first two restore projects. Especially Ken M and Sandy G.

What do you do with the rigs after you have finished tweaking them?

Gary G.

Cool looking set! Wish i had one of thoose! Is that tuner a stand alone unit or is it a part of the TV?

Whaddya do w/'em after you've finished 'em ? Well, I play about all of my radios regularly-and when people come by, I'll fire up one of the TVs...Enjoy 'em ! Everybody I know says to run the radios frequently.

hi grayga,

part of the fun after restoring them is listening to them. :yes: just sit back with your favorite beverage and enjoy the sounds from a faraway land.you also gotta love the sound of the sx 62 with its pushpull audio stage just make sure you hook it up to a nice 12' coaxial driver if you have one to make it really sing.i use to have a sx 62a it was my first tube s/w receiver and the one that got me hooked on the old boatanchors.enjoy :thmbsp:

the tv is also nice and you sure dont see many of those around anymore.i might have a ad for it in an old radio amatures handbook that i can dig up and scan if you'd like.
chris

That's a beautiful set. The cabinet looks in nice condition. If I had one of those my wife would never let it in the living room. She doesn't go for the ham shack / test equipment look. What do you do with it now? Keep it, enjoy it, inflict it on your friends and any other disinterested parties. Congratulations on a job well done. :thmbsp:

That shortwave set looks great too. I have a Hallicrafters S-53A that I absolutely love. It took a lot of work to restore but has been well worth it. The performance from all the Hallicrafters sets is excellent and they're built like tanks.

Nice looking sets. With vintage TVs, as well as boatanchors, I think it's useful to at least warm them up once a month or so. Keep moisture out of places where it doesn't belong, keep the controls free and lubed, etc.

I confess that I don't do that with every single radio & TV in the house, but I would if I were a better person!

TVs are more susceptible to backsliding, so I would at least fire it up the day before, say, a big party where you want to show Psycho or whatever on your "just restored" TV. Might avoid that embarrassing Poof! in front of friends :-)

The TV I'm sure, but methinks both of those were designed by Raymond Loewy, one of the great industrial designers of the 1930s-'40s. He designed the "coming-or-going" Studebaker of the late '40s, the '53 coupe, & the '62 Avanti, and did the color scheme/layout for Air Force One for JFK. They still use basically the same design on the present 747, but I think it looked better on the 707, which is what it was designed for. He was a cultured man who had an innate sense of how things should "look".

Chris,

I have a short stack of memorabilia next to the rigs. Especially stuff around WWII time showing the period hams were off the air and then back on. I have the '47, '48 & '49 Halli catalogs. But ads are cool and varied. So yes, I would appreciate having the ad from the Handbook.

Thanks!

Gary