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Good evening! For a +50 year old HAM-radio, it is looking more than good! This is nearly a perfect restauration! Nothing else to say more! This is more than a perfect work! I can see the love, you took into the old rigs, ... ! I enjoyed to see, the radio comming to work again, ... after a long period of standing still! What a loveley and rewarding craftman-ship, you put in the rig. Absolutly stunning work and efforts, you placed inside that old radio! - I raised my hat to the master! - And this is not a 'phrase' that I used often, ... you could beleave in me, ... ! Love this/your videos! If I made any mistakes in my writing or spelling, please be aware, that English is not my native tounge. Please apologies my faults. Take care of you and good luck for the future! Go on, with this special kind of 'labour-work', for the old, but very beautiful radios! (Hi Hi ! ! !) - It reminds me, building my very first 'tube-radio' in 1974, as an 12 year old boy, only having a 'copy of an shematic', of a 'good- known working 0-V-2',(developed for a 'self- study- course', of a German non- profit- amateur-radio society.) equiped with two ECC81 (12AX25 ; I think this may be the US-name, for the tubes that I used!) made on a 'self-etched printed circuit' board. What a luxury 'gem' ! It was a real cool and very good working regenerative tube radio, with only a small number of parts, going from long wave, over medium wave, up to 10m HAM- band. It could 'demodulate' AM and also SSB/CW, with only the regenerative circuit inside! It was a 'hot' receiver, with a good selectivity, ... only using the feedback- knob, the volume and the tuning- dial, as 'adjustable and playable parts', onto this small radio. It used plug-in coils, for each HAM-radio or BC-band, ... ! But it works like a charme, I never see during my 'whole electronic carriere', any more. This '0V2- receiver' still exist, and is in a very good and working condition, even today! I often listen to '80m- rounds' in the late evening, and often enjoyed, 'band- openings' to the to the 'west- side of the USA', in the 'breaking morning'- time! (Grayline-DX! So sad that it is only a 'receiver', not a transceiver, ... ! Hi Hi ! ! ! ) - 1989, I made my amateur-radio license (db9pz) and never give up, that hobby, until now, ... ! Maybe, we can meet on the QRG, sometimes! 73 de Markus - db9pz - LOC: JN39fq - 5km/3miles east of LX !

How Could this Man Have that Delivered. With it floating inside another Box and think it would be safe, I think People are going Brain dead, In the Last 3 years, I'm Glad It made it through delivery safely, Thank God

Very nice video! I recommend that you get yourself a few hemostats. Curved, straight, large and small. They work better than needle nose pliers for this type of work.

Very cool! I have a DX 100 transmitter and SB 303 receiver. They both have not been powered up for 5 years. Will have to be careful when I get them on

What great paint you have,,

Cool. I have an awesome highly modified HW-101 with a Digital VFO and all the cool mods from the '70s. I also have six (6) more to use for spares and to someday restore! I bough most of them and one was donated to me.

Will, the world will always need another HW-101 restoration video. Hmmm... I wonder if bending those tube pins might cause micro cracks to develop in the glass and eventually lead to a gassy tube.

Better spider webs than rat shit. I had an SB102, which is really the same rig as the HW101, except that the VFO (LMO) is factory assembled, and it has a slightly different case and a few of the panel switches are rotary instead of slide switches. The two rigs share at least 90% of the circuitry and parts list. They use the same circuit boards. Is the SB102 worth the extra cost? I got mine before the HW100 was available, but I did like the way it looked, and the VFO dial was easier to tune.

Yeah, the most pleasant part in restoration process is cleaning from the dust

Will you're doing great. I have been a ham since mid 70s and built my HW101 when new. Your skills are inspiring and you know what you're doing and very happy to watch and learn from your videos. very professional. thanks 73s wb7qxu

N .Davis WB4BKO There is a Heatkit mod to edliminazte the C cell battery. The eliminator uses the IM-18's power supply. I have no idea where one can locate the schematic for the mod. I worked at Heath Co factory in St Joseph, MI in the late 1970s and spent some time in customer service repairing linears, HW-101s and other radio equipment. It was an interesting positiion. Watching your other videos where you are rerstoring HW-101s brings back memories and your videos are a good review for me. I have been looking for an HW-101 to play with. It would compiment m y ICOM 7300 and Drake TR-4CW. Thank you for your very informative videos. 73

Thx for posting Will. You are the 101 Guru!

At least the resistors are Allen-Bradley style, and NOT those awful "roundys"! I see so many people keep "BAD TUBES" ... WHY! Glad to see you toss them! I still have one of those old Heathkit Frequency Counters from when I worked for Heathkit. --- Do you use DeoxIT D5 on your Switches, and DeoxIT Fader F5 on your POTs.? It is important, and does make a difference over time.

Perfect timing Will! I have an SB-102, with low power on most bands. Upon inspecting the driver switch board and its shield, there are many broken solder connections to the shield. I'll get in there and solder them all up. BTW.. I'm the 5th commenter... LOL!

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Great job. Thanks so much for posting this.

I view a situation such as this as opportunity (ie: a good excuse) to buy a new tool. A Hako desoldering iron, I should think. Thanks for the tip on the NTE wick and its many uses.

#1 comment and is an honor for me. I discover your channel reacently and let me tell you that I am GLAD. I suppose I never will find here (Argentina) a Heathkit in good state and functioning but if I find one (any condition) well .... I will give it a try. Gorgeous piece of equipments! Let me tell that your channel is very instructive and is It obvious that you are an expert in Heathkits and its repair. Cheers from Argentina! (LU8ARM)

The capacitor filter is shining and bright, perfect!

All that time and work...for Chinese mystery caps.

We worry about our phones getting wet but here you are scrubbing those circuit boards like giving your dog a bath

Use Qtips for decals......😊

Great video! I am working on a HW-22A that I built in summer of 1968. I have kept it in good condition for the past 56 years. The power supply electrolytic caps blew in 1968 when I first turned on the finished power supply. Heathkit sent me new ones right away. They have worked now for 56 years! I am replacing them now! The HW 22A has only 5 watts output. The driver tube seems good and I have a couple replacement finals to try as soon as I have the power supply up again. Do you know the RF voltage that should be on the plate of the driver or the grid of the finals? I should have measured that when it was putting out 100 watts! Hopefully the new finals will fix the output. I also recently found a HW-12 that probably needs a bit of work. Dirty but not as bad as the one you did. 73, Don N4DJ

I am really amazed with water inmersion and soap brushing. I always thought the water could harm the coils. You will say about the oven but amperimeter (instrument) is not plastic? because will be harmed regards

No doubt you've seen the recent CHAP 1970 ARRL ham radio video. If you haven't, you need to. Beautiful rig. I had one of these years ago. I think it was the 80 meter version, but I had it a short time before I sold it. I wish I could have kept it. I had this and a couple of old Civil Air Patrol radios that used the 6GE5 concraptrons (they're actually really good tubes). I fixed them all and sold them about 20 years ago and managed to acquire an extra set of 6GE5's in the mix that I still have. Your radios make me "green" with envy. Great job! Take care and 73.

Impressive and "lucky you" having those beauties. I am without equipments now (broken/old) and see those nice cabinets is a caress for my soul. Thanks for the video! LU8ARM

What a great job on an antique Heathkit speaker! Thanks for posting, sir!

That extra wire could have been installed by the former owner if he also has a Heath monitor scope. Then the wire might have been mentioned in the manual for the monitor scope.

With that shorted cap putting B+ on the antenna, you may have blown the diode in the rf pwr metering circuit. I'd put my J38 on the floor and use my foot!

You might want to save those old relays and try to rebuild them! A suitable replacement from Digikey is $90+ depending on coil voltage. The one you replaced looked like it had a pivot problem. Take two old ones and try to make one good one. I do that a lot with equipment I deal with. Great HW-101 videos! I am just starting a restoration on one that's in fairly good condition. What you show us will make a big difference in what I do.

Hello Sir, I know this question has nothing to do with this video but I don't see a place to message you. Would you consider doing a video about how to replace the 2 wire plug with the 3 wire plug on the HP 23 series power supply? Thank you .

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28:35 Wil.... The parasitic choke windings are shorted to the buss wire underneath of the parasitic choke. So you essentially have the cap shorted out with the choke. Jim W7RY

Beautiful!! I really enjoy the restoration videos - I have a few Heathkits I'd like to restore, and your videos have me excited to do that. Thanks! // N0DET

20:43 Should you be filling the radio with sandings from the aluminum shaft Will? :)

Hi Will, Nice restoration video. I also have the FT-901DM. I'm going to do a recap of it and the vfo is a little stiff. Does the HW paint match an SB-220 amp? Stay safe. 73 WJ3U

Thanks Will !!! Great video keeping the Heathkits going. I had the 80M single bander on a generator up at Black Lake in the Adirondacks going for a week. Great fun when the Sun went down ! De W4FJF 73.

Really great restoration work! Love these radios, they were just made to work. 73!

You an Shango006 should get together. He likes old, crusty equipment, too.

Cool radio. My uncle drove down from Toronto Canada to Long Island, NY to get one. I think he drove a Chevy.

I'd recommend a final rinse of distilled water. Good video, tnx and 73.

I have a bunch of Swan mono banders for 80, 40 & 20 that I want to restore including an original Bensen Arizona made Swan 120 serial number 176-2 with the gold front panel. The Heathkit monos were always a cool radio and I wish the various ham radio manufacturers would make a simple radio like this again.

Another great Heathkit restoration video, Will. I have a question: at the beginning of this video I spied with my little eye a Kenwood TS-520. Would you ever consider doing any kind of repair or restoration video for a Kenwood hybrid transceiver? I love the energy that you have with these Heathkit radios, and I would really enjoy seeing your passion and energy committed to one of the Kenwood hybrids. While I like Heathkit (I am a big fan of their test equipment product line), I’m an even bigger fan of the Kenwood hybrid transceivers. Whatever radios, you decide to put on your bench, I will always be a loyal viewer. 73 Kenan, KR6J

I just recently found this page and I love the video's, always nice to see someone that appreciates this equipment from the past and show that it is still quite usable and fun to restore. I grew up on Heathkit, it was something that I could afford to purchase new and always lots of fun to assemble and get working. I wish I had purchased more non ham radio products when Heathkit was going strong.

I had one of these when stationed in Heidelberg with USAREUR HQ in 1971-73. Used a vertical on the roof of my landlady's garage. I worked the world with this rig and loved it. Thanks for the video memory.

Rare as rocking horse droppings over this side (UK) but still a beautiful rig, fabulous design and all that after 60 years! Amazing. Lovely restoration too. Nice work.

If I ever find one of those rigs I'd move the mike jack to the front (if it was the older version), and extend the tuning range to cover the entire band. Then mod it to also do CW. Those rigs use sweep tubes in the final, but at least they are the cheaper kind out of B&W TV's.

Very nice to see Heathkit rigs get cleaned up and put back into service. My current cw rig is a Heathkit HW-8 qrp and I started out as a novice in 1975 with a DX-60B transmitter along with a Hammarlund HQ110 as my receiver ( still have that up and running ) so I guess that shows that I still have some Heathkit in my blood hi hi. 73 de wa4jat

Pl.give schematics of such type of radios if you have.Love from INDIA.

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