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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>A friend of mine has carried in a SX-28, serial
number H125730 and left it on my counter. This would indicate the radio as being
built sometime between 29 Oct 1940 (s/n H-119051) and 19 Mar
1941 (s/n H-127986.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>As he remembered it, the radio was working great,
half a century ago when he last saw it. His father had just retired and moved to
a farm, built a grass strip and set the Hallicrafters up in the back of the
hangar.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Now it is forlorn. Rusted, all the rubber feet
bubbled, cord stiff, but the band spread turns as nicely as the day it left
Chicago. Dead spiders, mud daubers and wasps nest clutter the interior. The cone
on the speaker is intact, but the windings look like mice have found the
insulation palatable. All the sheet metal is intact. No holes, no dents, no
bends. All the iron and tubes are present.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This is way over my head as a restoration project.
It's seemingly all there under the dirt and dust. What to do besides
quietly mutter, "Damn?"</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Emil</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>WD4SCZ</FONT></DIV>
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