Thread: Hacker Hunter
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Old 22nd May 2019, 6:58 am   #17
Argus25
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Originally Posted by McMurdo View Post
I get a great deal of pleasure from my hunter
These sorts of radios really are a class act. It is good to see the decent sized speaker and a well designed circuitry & interior and a decent wooden cabinet. More to the point though the radio is still almost as good as the day it was made many decades ago. Oddly this is now exactly what the world needs to counter plastic pollution and the curse of short lived appliances.

I have had little trouble with lockfit transistors in my Hacker radios....so far, perhaps I have been lucky. One thing that is not widely known is that Lucas used lockfits in some of their alternator regulators in the 1970's so they must have trusted them at least then, but I think the lockfit troubles took some decades to materialize.

Out of interest I've attached a photo of one of their boards, left hand image and you can see the lockfits.
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