[ARC5] TCS RF ammeter or thermocouple replacement

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 25 May 2011 at 17:54, Henry Frederick "Meils" Meiseles wrote:

> I haven't opened the meter yet to take a closer look at the how the thermocouple is mounted -
> I assume that once a thermocouple is overloaded, it's not reparable.

That is not true: they are repairable, but with some difficulty.

There was a very detailed article, written by an Australian, if I remember correctly, 
in a somewhat recent issue of Electric Radio magazine, in which the author 
restored several RF ammeters, using a home-made device. He then calibrated 
them, and unless there was some other mechanical problem with the meters, his 
success rate was very high.

If you cannot find a reference to that article on the ER website, I will attempt to 
find it in my messy collection of ERs.

Go here:

http://www.ermag.com/

and here:

http://www.radiolabworks.com/ersearch.html

Ken W7EKB