{"id":36087,"date":"2019-02-25T07:35:35","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T11:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=36087"},"modified":"2019-02-25T07:35:35","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T11:35:35","slug":"ed-restores-a-hallicrafters-s-72l-cabinet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/ed-restores-a-hallicrafters-s-72l-cabinet\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed restores a Hallicrafters S-72L cabinet"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nMany thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor,\u00a0Edward Ganshirt, who shares the following:<\/p>\n

This is a Hallicrafters S-72L “barn find” I restored.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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This turned out to be a furniture refinishing project and not a radio (electronics) restoration job.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is a 1949\/50 era portable with batteries and 1 volt tubes.<\/p>\n

When I brought it home the cosmetic condition was such, I kept it away from the litter box out of an abundance of caution to prevent it from being buried by the cats.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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This is a very early portable radio made out of plywood and coated with brown wall paper fabric imitating cheap portable record players and luggage of the era.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I decided to laminate it with cedar drawer liner to give it some class instead of vinyl wallpaper.<\/p>\n

While learning to laminate wood is another skill outside the scope of this article, The trick when applying laminate is to prevent bubbles forming under the laminate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Also all divits and dents should be filled in with Bondo or wood filler. The surface is lightly sanded with very fine sandpaper and at least 8 layers of gloss water based floor varnish applied and allowed to thoroughly dry before the next coat.<\/p>\n

This radio has nice audio quality, It has a BFO and tunes the longwave band through 11MHz.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The only regrets is cleaning it aggressively which took away a lot of the “old radio smell”, but the cedar aroma will keep the moths out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nFantastic, Ed!\u00a0 Thanks for sharing. I think you made a considerate upgrade to the S-72L. Great to hear this radio plays well and has excellent audio. I found one at a hamfest once in slightly<\/em> better cosmetic condition, but much worse electrical condition than your pre-restoration unit. I’m sure I took a photo of it, but I can’t seem to find it in the archives.<\/p>\n

Post readers: any other Hallicrafters S-72L owners out there?\u00a0 Have you ever installed wood laminate on a radio cabinet? Please comment!<\/p>\n

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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Edward Ganshirt, who shares the following: This is a Hallicrafters S-72L “barn find” I restored. This turned out to be a furniture refinishing project and not a radio (electronics) restoration job. It is a 1949\/50 era portable with batteries and 1 volt tubes. When I brought it home the cosmetic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[627,3,26,4796],"tags":[4800,1255,7639,4132,681,7523],"class_list":["post-36087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","category-news","category-radios","category-vintage-radio","tag-edward-ganshirt","tag-hallicrafters","tag-hallicrafters-s-72l","tag-radio-restoration","tag-vintage-radio","tag-vintage-radio-repair"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-9o3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":55066,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/georges-repairs-and-enjoys-this-vintage-hallicrafters-sx-130\/","url_meta":{"origin":36087,"position":0},"title":"Georges repairs and enjoys this vintage Hallicrafters SX-130","author":"Thomas","date":"December 18, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Georges Ringotte (F6DFZ), who writes: Recently my \"radio brother\" Bruno F6CRN gave me a vintage Hallicrafters SX-130 from the mid seventies. 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