[ARC5] BC-946 Tuning capacitor removal and panel straightening

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 27 Mar 2011 at 13:40, David Stinson wrote:

> If you can recover the IF cans, coil pack and BFO coil,

The BFO coil is the "fly in the ointment": in every one of the bastardized BC 
band "ARC-5s" I have, that coil is missing. So, what do we do about THAT?

> you can transplant them into a common BC-453 chassis.

Yes. I am aware of that.

> There are other small componant changes needed to get
> it exactly "right," but it will work after alignment.
> If your 453 is one of the sets with only a couple of pins
> in the remote drawer and you want to use an Accessory
> plug-in,  you'll need to wire-up the drawer 
> with the full set of pins from your parter.
> If you want to get as close as possible with this set,
> Ray Mote produced a list of the small componant 
> differences some years ago.

So, where do we get that information?

>  Change a few resistors,
> realign and you've saved a BCB rig from oblivion.
> If you go "the full Monty," there'll be no functional
> difference between it and a "factory" -946.

Terry, a member of our list, is doing that. I am sending him an essentially 
useable BC-453 chassis as soon as I possibly can.

I think he lucked out and has the BFO transformer/coil.

Ken W7EKB