On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:37:37 -0700 (PDT), Scott Dickson
wrote:

On Sep 12, 9:38*pm, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/qb7cs3

And as it happens, I know somebody who wants to get rid of a
Hammerlund HQ-180A.

Hmmmmm....

Looks like it needs work, Tom. Keeps blowing a fuse??????

That's half the fun of these old radios - find out why. On these
beasties, it's usually something really simple - like a bad wafer on a
switch or something.

"Tom Francis - SWSports" wrote in
message ...
snip....
Mrs. Wave used to get really ****ed when we would park out at the
light house after a dance or movie and I'd turn on the radio and sweep
the bands for something interesting. :)

She got used to it though.

Good times - good times. :)


Boy...you were quite the romantic in your younger days! ;-)

On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 07:58:45 -0400, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:

Looks like it needs work, Tom. Keeps blowing a fuse??????

That's half the fun of these old radios - find out why. On these
beasties, it's usually something really simple - like a bad wafer on a
switch or something.

Or a bad electrolytic capacitor. When I was a kid one of my friends
had one explode and put a hole in the ceiling. All of us used to
collect old radios and you never knew what would happen when they were
turned on for the first time after 30 years in someone's attic. That
was when radios had real components in them like center tapped power
transformers and type 80 rectifier tubes.