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Old 6th Oct 2006, 3:19 pm   #1
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Default Red Hacker Herald RP30

I picked up this tidy Hacker RP30, serial No 81443, at Harpenden last Sunday for the princely sum of £5 . Totally dead when powered up, this one had its share of the usual Hacker faults. The audio module was temporarily swapped for a good one so that the AF117s could be sorted, one was good, one needed its screen lead disconnecting, the third was intermittent so I replaced it with a good AF114. The set now worked fine after cleaning the pots and switches. Next the original audio board was tackled. Most faults on these are caused by duff electrolytics, so I changed the lot, it's usually quicker than trying to fault-find these things.
The case was dismantled next and the parts carefully cleaned, There was a half inch layer of dust in the speaker cone! The brass grille came up nicely with metal polish, and was given a coat of clear laquer. Typically the front foam padding had turned to dust and I replaced this with some thin plastic foam packing material, inserted from the middle where the grille fits. With the whole thing reassembled, the set now looks and sounds fantastic, I left the little BBC stickers on the scale since they were undamaged and had been put on straight!, No Radio 1 sticker , so the original owner had some taste . There were a couple of scraps of paper inside the set giving dates and prices of PP9 battery replacements over the years as follows:-

1st Sept 1971 60p
2nd Sept 1972 69p
24th Dec 1973 70p
21st Dec 1974 82p
24th Jan 1976 104p
25th Jun 1977 £1.32
29th Aug 1978 -- --
27th Jan 1980 -- --
6th Nov 1982 £2.78

Perhaps it died in 1983..... . Nice to have a bit of history, Another fine set for the growing collection of Hackers, and I do like the red ones .

Regards, Mick.
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Old 6th Oct 2006, 6:31 pm   #2
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Nice RP30 Mick
Brought one in blue last week,going to replace u.s volume switch/pot this weekend.
brought two pp9s 5 quid the pair,only 50p cheaper than the set.
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Old 6th Oct 2006, 7:02 pm   #3
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That's a beauty Mick, it gives me the urge to drag out a red one and polish it. Of my 7 RP30s, only three are red but methinks the big 'L' would sound good on one of those, especially between 22:00 and 02:00 Monday to Thursday.
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Old 6th Oct 2006, 9:34 pm   #4
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Hello Mickjjo,

I remember you grabbing this one at Harpenden

Well done, and you even 'responged' it

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Old 6th Oct 2006, 9:47 pm   #5
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Hi Howard, I'm surprised you didn't buy this one for a fiver!, and it was late in the day , I'm more than pleased with it, seems more sensitive than the other two RP30s I have. The "Big L" sounds great on this one....... .

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