HQ-170 part needed and cleaning advice needed.

[Mike Langner]

Hello !

Based on my HQ-180, the transformer is a typical single-ended audio output
transformer -- nothing special --

Primary single ended to match the output tube -- secondaries 500 ohms for
line output and 3.2 ohms to operate the headphone jack and the speaker.

I'm sure I can find one in my junkbox that'll do the plate to 3.2 ohms for
you, if you don't need the 500 ohm winding.

And I might even find one that has the 500 ohm winding as well.

Please let me know if you'd like me to send a transformer to you -- it'll be
gratis (Happy New Year!) -- it'll not be physically identical, but it'll be
similar.


Also -- a now silent key friend of mine used to bath old radios in Ivory
Flakes -- not a detergent, but mild Ivory flakes.

Then he would dry the radio in the summertime New Mexico sun for a week or
so.


Yes, he would remove paper dial labels and similar before immersing the
radio.

He said he never had a problem.

I don't know that I'd go as far as he did, but to my knowledge he was 100%
straightforward !!

73 and good luck !!

Mike/
K5MGR
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Subject: Re: HQ-170 part needed and cleaning advice needed.


At 06:16 PM 1/1/2007, Kevin Thomas wrote:

>Lastly, this baby is DIRTY!  I have heard horror stories about giving
>Hammarlunds a bath. I have been successful in the past with other makes
>by using a pressure washer turned down a bit with warm soapy water, then
>putting it out in the hot summer sun for a few hours...any advice here?


Hi Kevin,

Yes, don't do that, would be my suggestion.

A damp sponge and some time will do an equally good job without potentially
ruining something in the process (would be easy to do with a pressure
washer!).
It's not going to take that long to do it carefully, as opposed to flailing
away with a pressure washer!  Hammarlunds are no different from any other
radio,,,, if they're dirty, spend some time and clean it up...it's worth
the effort, and you wont wreck anything

It's a good receiver... and it will look good with minimal effort...
congrats!

John k5mo

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