Quote Originally Posted by KJ6BSO View Post
Got the radio fired up yesterday after replacing the dial cord on the main tuning with some braided Dacron fishing line (it's smaller in diameter than the original cotton cord but it worked—after several tries, anyhow. I'm glad the S 20B has a relatively simple set-up compared to some of those old Hallicrafters radios); it's got some power supply hum so I guess I'm going to have recap it one of these days but it's listenable. I tuned into the Padres game and listened to them get their asses kicked by the Reds; an inauspicious first test of the radio to be sure.
Check to see if it is fused . If I remember right, many of the Hallicrafter receivers had no fuses, they also had weak power transformers. Bad combination. BTW, great find.