[AMRadio] SX 28 input coil

[WILHITE, JIM]

Hi Bill,

I have a friend that reads this reflector and he told me a story about doing the bee's wax thing.  He had his wife holding the coil while he spilled melted bee's wax on her hand.  It was all he could do to keep her from throwing the coil across the room.  She held on and it was fixed.   

The real problem with the 28 is getting the old one out, which I will have to do in either case, but with a known good coil, I am more comfortable installing, as I am old and shakey especially winding coils.   

What a laugh I got from your message, thanks for breaking the monotony.  Hope Charlie doesn't mind me telling his story.

73  Jim
de W5JPW


I'd recommend removing the coil and inspecting for damage. Often the
winding will fail outside the coil on one of the leads (hope, hope). Then
check each bundle for continuity. Then start unwinding that bundle until
you reach the break.

Brush on melted beeswax as you manually wind it back to full.

Also, you may find that a coil from almost any rig from that era,
especially one running the same tube, will be an equivalent substitute.

Before I follow my own advise above, does anyone have a junker GRR-5
(R-174) receiver?   ;-)

Bill     K2AME


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