[ARC5] A really WEIRD question...

[J. Forster]

I don't know specifically, but if there was no ball separator to space out
the balls, I'd pretty much put in as many as will fit, then remove one,
and rotate the shaft end to end to spread out the remaining ones.

Just a guess,

Best,

-John

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> I am rebuilding another derelict BC-454B here.
>
> After fixing all the ordinary problems, I come up with a very, very stiff
> tuning capacitor.
>
> So I removed the cover and discovered that some time in its past life,
> someone had hit this
> thing so had that the end of the rotor shaft on the opposite end from the
> drive mechanism
> had been forced completely out of its hub, and the teeny tiny balls had
> been scattered
> although the larger one was there.
>
> So my WEIRD question: how many of those teeny tiny balls are supposed to
> be in THAT end
> of the spring-tensioner?
>
> By sweeping a magnet back and forth across the floor, besides those few I
> had captured, I
> found 9 balls.
>
> Trouble is, I have taken apart two other caps, losing all the balls out of
> one and capturing a
> few from the other cap.
>
> There were none inside the receiver, and besides, since there was only one
> screw in the
> cover at that place on either side of the mixer tube where there should be
> two, I suspect that
> the original owner of this thing had the cover off before I got it.
>
> There is room in that race for 8 balls, but I suspect that there were
> never that many in there.
>
> Can anyone help? I really don't want to replace the tuning cap if I don't
> have to.
>
> I suspect that there were 6, but no more than 7 balls in there originally.
>
> Ken W7EKB
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