[ARC5] An unusual cure for a short in a tuning gang.

[AKLDGUY .]

Aren't there top-mounted trimmer capacitors across all sections?
Maybe the short was there?
Aluminium fragments caused by a previous modifier's drilling and filing?

73 de Neil ZL1ANM


On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 9:08 AM, Leslie Smith <vk2bcu at operamail.com> wrote:

>
>   Dear list-readers,
>   I write this posting after reading postings by other contributors
>   about faulty oscillators in command receivers.
>   Some time ago I acquired a 'nice' but not-working command receiver.
>   I traced the fault to the tuning gang - a short between the plates,
>   measured using a multimeter, with the wire disconnected.
>
>   Careful inspection by eye failed to find the short.
>   Compressed air did nothing.
>   I spoke with a friend, David Lawrence, about the problem.
>   David is 'cluey' where valves are concerned.
>   He gave me the most unusual remedy I've ever heard.  He told me to:
>
>   Fold a blanket 2 layers thick and put it on the floor.
>   Take the  'toobs' out of the receiver.
>   Hold the radio 60cm above the blanket, level (horizontal) with the
>   floor.
>   Drop the radio onto the blanket.
>   Be careful not to drop the radio on a corner.  (Obvious.)
>    Then - see if the set works.  It did.
>
>   This is a true story, not a joke.
>
>
>   73 de Les Smith
>   vk2bcu at operamail.com
>
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