[rollei_list] Re: OT Leica finish on radios
- From: John Jensen <jwjensen356@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 19:57:02 -0700 (PDT)
Very interesting. All I can add to this information was the slang name used by
people at Raytheon (a supplier to Hallicrafters), Happicrappers. Maybe it was
used by others.
John
From: Richard Knoppow <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 1:19 PM
Subject: [rollei_list] Re: OT Leica finish on radios
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerry Lehrer" <glehrer@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 11:38 AM
Subject: [rollei_list] Re: OT Leica finish on radios
> Richard,
>
> Wow! Collins ham gear. Out of my league. L I could afford when i got my
> license, was a Hammarlund (sp?) SW receiver. The only transmitter
> was for radio controlled model airplanes. This was in 1946.
>
> Could that finish be Hammer-tone? That type of finish was used on Leitz
> Ophthalmic and medical equipment.
>
> Please correct me if I am wrong.
>
> Jerry
>
There is a lot of Collins gear out there so someone must have been rich
enough to buy it but no one I knew. Its still too expensive despite this stuff
dating back to about the 1960's. The finish on the S line is not hammertone
but the fake leather sort of pebbled texture used by Leica on many of its
cameras. The story is that Art Collins had a Leica and wanted a similar finish
for the radios. There are pictures on the web that show it pretty clearly.
Collins and Bill Halligan of Hallicrafters fame started in business at about
the same time in the depths of the depression. Halligan made mostly affordably
priced good quality equipment while Art Collins went after the most affluent of
the market. There were still people with lots of money even in the early 1930s.
Both succeeded. Their stories are available on the web and make interesting
reading for those interested in entrapeneures.
Hallicrafters also used a rather elegant finish on a lot of their early
equipment. This is called "crackle", often confused with wrinkle finish.
Crackle looks like dried mud and was also used by General Radio, a pioneer
maker of laboratory grade electronic measurement instruments. I think crackle
was also supposed to mimic leather. Anyway this is all very OT here but I am
not surprized that you know about radio equipment as well as cameras.
--
Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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