[ARC5] A really WEIRD question...

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 31 May 2013 at 6:53, gordon white wrote:

> A way to get small ball or needle bearings back into place is to use
> grease to hold them. - Gordon White

Yes. I used grease to hold the balls in the tensioner end, but on the OTHER 
(big) end, there is no way to get grease in there, and besides, that wouldn't 
help anyway. 

The "slot" in the big end is placed so that one has to both slightly pry the two 
bits apart, and "lean" the rotor to one side, then feed each individual ball in to 
the slot, letting it roll to the "bottom" where the two pieces of capacitor are 
closer together. That way they don't roll out.

I did manage to get as many of those little balls as I could find in there, only 
dropping 3 or 4 in the process. In any case, out of about 24 or 25 balls that 
should be in there, I got at least 18 in place, and the capacitor is now 
centered and works smoothly. 

But what a giant PITA it was putting those back in there! If I had had a spare 
capacitor, it would have taken far less time to simply replace the capacitor. 4 
screws and three soldered connections isn't much.

I also oiled everything oil-able with Tri-Flow. The tuning is nice and smooth 
now. I hope it stays that way.

Kenneth G. Gordon W7EKB

"Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway."--- John   Wayne