[ARC5] [Boatanchors] BC-348 Backlash Suggestions

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

I'm sorry, but this terminology is all backwards.  In a simple worm and 
spur gear right angle drive as used in the BC-348, lost motion between moving 
the knob and moving the capacitor shaft has two main sources - backlash 
between the worm and spur gear and endplay in the shaft the worm is mounted on.  

To quote in part Webster's Third New International Dictionary, 

backlash n b: the clearance, slack or play between adjacent movable parts 
(as in a series of gears).

end play n 1 : slight endwise movement (as of a shaft or axle).

Robert Downs - Houston
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In a message dated 04/27/2013 12:48:32 PM Central Daylight Time, 
vk2bcu at operamail.com writes: 
> 73 de Les Smith
>   vk2bcu at operamail.com
> 
> 
> To quote Richard Knoppow:   "Most of the so-called anti-backlash
> arrangements of gears is really to eliminate play."
> So we really mean anti-play arrangement, not anti-backlash.
> 
> I like your precise use of language, Richard.
> We (humans) often fail to use the correct word or term.
> 
> For example it's more common to see "mHz" (meaning one thousandth of a
> Hertz - a very low frequency) rather than MHz.
> 
> Les
> 
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