[ARC5] Command TX Repairs

[J. Forster]

Many hardware stores sell steel bearing balls in those sets of
miscellaneous hardware they have. In WW II all balls were in fractional
inch sizes, I( think.

-John

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> Improper packing of a transmitter I bought at auction resulted in
> dislodging of some of the ball bearings but thankfully not the glass
> balls.  This rig broke a rollerductor ceramic supporting arm also.  With
> effort I located all but one of the tiny ball bearings in the bottom of
> the
> box among the sparsely supplied styrofoam peanuts and then managed to
> reinsert them.  The rotor turns just fine with only one steel ball
> missing.  I got a new ceramic arm from a junker.
>
> Dennis AE6C
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 8:43 PM, J. Forster <jfor at quikus.com> wrote:
>
>> On most variable caps, the inner end of the shaft has a single ball as a
>> thrust & rotation bearing. The other end has a ring of balls in thrust
>> and
>> the shaft goes through the center of the ring. The shaft is the inner
>> race, the frame the outer race.
>>
>> -John
>>
>> ==============
>>
>>
>> >
>> > On Nov 14, 2011, at 11:04 PM, Dennis pharr wrote:
>> >
>> >> ... And, if the
>> >> suspension beads are gone, it's likely the ball bearings have fallen
>> >> out as
>> >> well.
>> >
>> > If I remember right: the glass suspension beads hold the stators in
>> > place, and the ball bearings hold one (or both) ends of the rotor in
>> > place.
>> >
>> > Roy
>> >
>> > Roy Morgan
>> > k1lky at earthlink.net
>> > K1LKY Since 1958 - Keep 'em Glowing!
>> >
>> >
>> >
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