{"id":4580,"date":"2012-10-08T15:19:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T04:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/10\/08\/harvs-hallicrafters-ht-37-a-thing-of-beauty\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T17:26:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T07:26:42","slug":"harvs-hallicrafters-ht-37-a-thing-of-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/10\/08\/harvs-hallicrafters-ht-37-a-thing-of-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"Harv’s Hallicrafters HT-37: A Thing of Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Good Evening Bill,<\/div>\n
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Well with sore fingers, I\u2019m glad to report that the upper deck of my newly acquired HT-37 is complete. (see enclosed photos)<\/div>\n
Mice had a small party in this radio but aside from the numerous corrosion spots and few frayed wires, the task of restoring was not too over whelming.<\/div>\n
I have had my trusty Soldering Iron in high use mode lately.<\/div>\n
All but the final tubes have the Hallicrafters<\/i> logo stamped on them.<\/div>\n
I had to replaced the Final Tune Capacitor C55 and have gone through all the modifications done to this radio during its 52 years of service.<\/div>\n
The previous owner added an internal Antenna Relay (grey transformer near rear of deck.) and replaced the Mic connector with a Drake style phono jack. (I guess that\u2019s acceptable.)<\/div>\n
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Now I\u2019m onto the re-capping of the lower deck, De-ox the tube sockets and switches. Finally, the replacement of the rectifiers with solid state devices.<\/div>\n
I\u2019m documenting all the details just in case there is another solder melting soul out there that wants to restore their HT-37.<\/div>\n
With some tender care, it should last another 50 years.<\/div>\n
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Bill, Keep on learning, Keep on burning (solder that is!)<\/div>\n
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73\u2019s & Enjoy<\/div>\n
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Harv -=WA3EIB=-<\/div>\n
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Good Evening Bill, Well with sore fingers, I\u2019m glad to report that the upper deck of my newly acquired HT-37 is complete. (see enclosed photos) Mice had a small party in this radio but aside from the numerous corrosion spots and few frayed wires, the task of restoring was not too over whelming. I have … Continue reading “Harv’s Hallicrafters HT-37: A Thing of Beauty”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hallicrafters","category-old-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4582,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4580\/revisions\/4582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}