From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Maynard Wright via groups.io <m-wright@...>
Sent: Monday, November 4, 2024 9:17 PM
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HallicraftersRadios] S-38B, variations

My S-38 (no suffix) with a metal bottom cover has no back cover, either.
The line cord comes through the chassis in what appears to be an
original round hole.

My Echophone EC-1A has a similar cord routed through a similar hole.
Its original back cover has a hole for the line cord to pass through
with a slot from the hole to the edge of the cover so that the cover can
be removed without bothering the line cord.

73,

Maynard
W6PAP


On 11/4/24 17:25, Richard Knoppow wrote:

My S-38 is missing the back cover. The line cord comes from the
chassis through a gland, no sign of there ever having been a connector
there. Since I don't have the back cover I don't know for certain how it
was arranged but think the cord simply came through a hole in the cover
small enough to keep fingers out. However, it would have to have been
large enough to clear the line plug. Someone with an intact receiver
will have to answer.
I don't know what AC/DC receivers hallicrafters made before the
S-38. If we can include Echophone the EC-1 and EC-3 were AC/DC. Pictures
of the EC-3 show the line cord coming right out of the chassis.
There is some history to be found about the regulations applying to
AC/DC radios and phonographs. UL and other standards that might require
isolation of "hot" parts and approved methods of doing so. Of course,
Hallicrafters were not the only ones to make AC/DC gear so perhaps a
comparison with others might be enlightening.

On 11/4/2024 4:54 PM, don Root wrote:

Ahhh, now I get it, the ?SO-1 captured to the chassis while the PL-2
captured to the insulated back cover going down over the chassis apron


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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
SKCC 19998