[ARC5] Tool Set goes with which radio?

[jcoward5452 at aol.com]

Thanks everyone for your input.
My surmise from this is that the "Bristo" was for replaceing knobs,the Phillips was for connector repair,the tube puller is for (obvious to us) tube pulling,and the knob is for local tuning to determine if a mechanical problem exists between the control head and the receiver.
 My next guess is that this kit was available to radio men that worked on civilian aircraft and was specific to A.R.C. equiped civilian aircraft.I have not yet determined if the tube puller is for octal or loctal or both. Comments?
 Yea?   Nae?

Jay







-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Hanz <aaf-radio-1 at aafradio.org>
To: Discussion of AN/ARC-5 military radio equipment. <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thu, Jun 24, 2010 4:51 am
Subject: Re: [ARC5] Tool Set goes with which radio?


It's certainly a fair question.  As I conjectured above the photos of 
he tool set, I would have thought that the Bristo wrench and 
crewdriver in the kit would have been part of the basic technician's 
ool issue (naturally including flat blade screwdrivers) - not 
pecialized tools for use only on the command sets.  It may have simply 
een a requirement from some nameless bureaucrat...wouldn't have been 
he first time.... :-)
I can think of only a couple of screws on the sets that has a Phillips 
ead.  One is a #4 sheet metal screw that retains the little covers and 
lock-off plates over unused parts on the control boxes, as well as the 
ameplates on some of them.  The other is a flat head screw that retains 
witches in the control boxes.  Can anyone recall any other applications?
  - Mike
On 6/23/2010 10:13 PM, jcoward5452 at aol.com wrote:
 Thanks for the reply Gordon, but why a Philips (+) screwdriver? I would think 
 flat blade (-) would be more useful considering the numbber of slotted screws 
sed on A.R.C. radios.
    
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