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Title: Finally my sx-28 is done Post by: iw5ci on June 19, 2011, 03:11:06 PM With the help of i8kll i finally have an sx-28 in working conditions... before restoration it was ready for dust bin...
http://boatanchors.tumblr.com/ i am really happy! it is awesome! Title: Re: Finally my sx-28 is done Post by: KA0HCP on June 19, 2011, 04:28:12 PM You did a fantastic job restoring it! It has been fun following your progress since your first post which was a bit discourage at the poor condition. :)
Bill Title: Re: Finally my sx-28 is done Post by: iw5ci on June 20, 2011, 08:07:15 AM Thank you Bill, i am proud of the result... more the radio is ugly, dirty and not working, more the final result is fascinating...
I have already started the restoration of an RCA AR-88 and i really don't know where to put all that radios after restoration. I live alone in a flat in Florence (ITALY) and the guest room is dedicated to my ham stuff, but i have already reached the critic mass of radios... Even if i have 20 years to retirement, i hope one day to have an house in the countryside with full sized dipoles and a big room for the shack . In the weekend i will try to interface the SX-28 with the ART-13 (mute) because i think this would be a nice couple for my AM station. It's incredible how good both are stable and are precise in tuning. The SX-28 after 70 years of life is still capable of a precision of less that 5 khz in the scale and the art-13 even more... Title: Re: Finally my sx-28 is done Post by: W3GMS on June 20, 2011, 10:56:59 AM ANDREA,
Congrats on doing a FB restoration job. You can hardly recognize what you started with when compared to your completed restoration work. I know you put a lot of time in bringing it to completion. The look of the SX-28 is my favorite of all the Hallicrafters gear. I have an SX-28 downstairs, its all original and need to be restored. Your work has inspired me to get started on it! 73, Joe, W3GMS Title: Re: Finally my sx-28 is done Post by: aa5wg on June 20, 2011, 11:05:43 AM Andrea:
Your SX-28 looks very good. Congrats! One question, how do I translate the non English text that your are showing on your link? 73, Chuck Title: Re: Finally my sx-28 is done Post by: WD8BIL on June 20, 2011, 11:57:35 AM Chuck,
Try a right click anywhere on the page and select "translate with live search". It just worked for me. Bud Title: Re: Finally my sx-28 is done Post by: aa5wg on June 20, 2011, 02:24:05 PM Bud, I will try your suggestion again when I get home. I am at a friends home and when I right click and sellect translate I think it is translating in Russian. I better not change any of his settings. I will try again tomorrow.
73, Chuck Title: Re: Finally my sx-28 is done Post by: KC2TAU on June 20, 2011, 03:33:59 PM Google Translate works well, just copy and paste.
Title: Re: Finally my sx-28 is done Post by: aa5wg on June 20, 2011, 04:02:05 PM KC2TAU:
Thank you. Chuck Title: Re: Finally my sx-28 is done Post by: iw5ci on June 21, 2011, 04:32:37 AM Just finished to start another project :) the Ar-88 restoration..
i am really curious to compare AR-88 with SX-28 and Superpro 200... Yesterday evening i tried to copy a very weak MW broadcast. I compared the SX-28 with Collins 390 , a modern Icom 735 and a new SDR receiver. No one did the job considerably better than the other, the station was copyable with all the receivers BUT even if it was very weak, the Sx-28 with the PM-23 speaker was more pleasant that the ic-735 with internal speaker of the sdr with PC speakers or collins 390 with a Kenwood SP-230 speaker. Title: Re: Finally my sx-28 is done Post by: Ed/KB1HYS on June 21, 2011, 06:27:35 AM Very nice Work OM. It shows lots of hard work there.
Title: Re: Finally my sx-28 is done Post by: K5UJ on June 21, 2011, 06:18:29 PM Ed took the words right out of my mouth. It really looked like an uphill battle but now it is a showpiece.
Rob Title: Re: Finally my sx-28 is done Post by: WBear2GCR on June 24, 2011, 06:13:20 PM Ok, how did you clean the chassis?? The IF cans? What did you use Did you take it ALL apart first?? Very very curious... _-_-bear Title: Re: Finally my sx-28 is done Post by: iw5ci on June 25, 2011, 06:55:02 PM The chassis was at first washed in the bathtub . I used a degreaser with a paintbrush and the i washed very well until al grime was gone. Then after drying i used a metal wool (the same used in the kitchen to clean stoves) to make the metal bright. For if cans i polished them with CAR polish .
Title: Re: Finally my sx-28 is done Post by: WBear2GCR on June 25, 2011, 10:17:39 PM Well, it looks very good! Did you have to protect the dial and the S meter, or were those and the front panel removed first?? How about the potentiometers? _-_-bear |