Heathkit HW-101 Part #4: Does it work? 

Fantastic restoration on the Heathkit HW-101! Yes my dad had one in his ham shack years ago & yes hearing the ham stations come in clear! Fantastic job!🙂 73’s de VE3EUP!🙂

Great job! We are all so proud of you! Here's a tip/work-around, for the resistor that drifted high and is hard to get to... Leave the old resistor in place. Solder the new resistor pins to the outer edges of the old resistor. Leave plenty of pin length on the new resistor, because the next step is to cut/break out the old resistor, from under the new one. Bend the pins to neaten up appearances. Be careful to not let your solder dwell time go too long and desolder the original pins from the bottom of the board. HTH

Really enjoyed this video thanks for sharing

I've been binge-watching your videos since I found your channel while searching for "HW-101". I helped build one of these in the early 1970's (with our small Boy's Club ham radio group) for an Elmer who was a retired Army officer. It's great to see one of these come back to life. You're doing a great job with your videos -looking forward to seeing more!

Nice clean video, really peaks my interest. Hope to find one of these rigs one day.

Thanks for the videos, I have binge watched the first four this evening. I once had an FL2100B amplifier that had belonged to a heavy cigarette smoker, that stank but it was no where near as bad as your HW-101. Regards Mike G4VQH

I´m happy with you. It´s looking great.....congratulations !!!

Excellent job cleaning up this radio. It looks brand new. It's appearance is brand new with the exception of the Old Dial. I built a SB-102 in the late 70s. Thanks for going to the extra effort to video document the project. Oh BTW do you know there are after market Bright White LEDs that are fitted with a bayonet type plug compatible with the bayonet type socket used on most radios. These assemblies include an internal rectification diode and dripping resistor so they are plug-n-play. They are also made with Blue LEDs for RL Drake Radios.

WOW, I have seen smoke stained electronics, but that won win's the prize. It sure cleaned up nicely, it's starting to look like my HW-100. Do I see an HT-40 on the shelf, my brother built one in the 60's when he got his novice license and I used it when I got mine 1971.

Can't even (don't want to) imagine what this ham shack owner's lungs looked like.

Very good cleaning procedure.

When you can't remove a resistor to replace it, you can simply cut it off and use the leftover terminals to solder a new one. By the way, this is the process indicated by collins in maintenance.

We used to call them Hevn Kits Ha,Ha,Ha

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I have a IC-746pro that was exposed to intense smoking. It stunk for months and months and then it finally died off. I can't stand that smell.

What cleaner did you use diluted? Boy, that rig looks great! 73 - Dino KLØS

what size bulb for the tester did you use? also can i use any 8hom speaker? Thanks. very helpful!!

What is the cleaning solution you used on the knobs and tubes?