[ARC5] BC-458 Ball Bearings - and glass balls

[Bruce Long]

Both Miami Small Parts and McMaster Carr have small balls for sale,  MSP has ruby and Sapphire, McM has glass and ceramicPrices are moderate  Ball diameters are fractional  ie  1/16 3/32 1/8 and others

 

      From: Kenneth G. Gordon <kgordon2006 at frontier.com>
 To: ARC5 at mailman.qth.net 
 Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2016 10:55 AM
 Subject: Re: [ARC5] BC-458 Ball Bearings - and glass balls
   
On 6 Jan 2016 at 0:00, Mike Morrow wrote:

> > I just thought of this - With a angled screwdriver ( the ratcheting type)
> > One might be able to remove those screws holding the spring.and then,pull
> > the shaft out enough to get the ball bearings in. Without removing the
> > cap
> 
> It is odd that any event strong enough to derange the ball bearings for the
> rotor of one capacitor did not jar out the two ball glass spacer-insulators
> on the stator of all such caps in the unit. 

Yes. That was the first thing that came to my mind too, when I first read 
the OP's post.

I have at least a couple of derelict transmitters here in which those 
glass balls are missing from at least one of the capacitors. I have no 
idea what I can do about them either.

:-(

Ken W7EKB
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