[ARC5] [Milsurplus] Those Troublesome ARC-2 Dynamotors

[Mike Hanz]

You just used the wrong approach, Dave.  You are supposed to lower the 
radio over the dyno, not the other way around... :-)

Oh yeh, a twin safety wire bail on a wood dowel handle is another useful 
method.

On 11/7/2011 7:17 AM, David Stinson wrote:
> The heavy ARC-2 dyno is a smooth cylinder with a female connection 
> socket on one side.  The ARC-2 chassis has a set of male pins to 
> engage the socket.  Once you settle that dyno in, there is NO room for 
> fingers to adjust it and get the blasted pins engaged.  Now, any 
> engineer who hadn't been drinking would have put some kind of guide on 
> the dyno and chassis to align the thing.  But nooooo.  I was going to 
> try using a thin, wide strap to lower the dynamotor into the slot, 
> then rotate it until the pins engaged, but I got lucky on about the 
> 87th try and got the angle right.