[ARC5] Screw Gremlins

[Bill Cromwell]

Ah So,

I see it is confession time. I admit that I too have some loose screws.

73,

Bill  KU8H

On 05/07/2017 11:05 PM, Tom Bridgers wrote:
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> I began losing ARC-5 screws soon after I first starting working
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> on ARC-5 radios at about 13 years old (and I'm 75 now).  It was
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> a mystery to me that no matter how hard I tried, I always seemed
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> to lose at least one or two screws when removing and reattaching
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> ARC-5 TX and RX covers.  Sometimes more than two.
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> Over the last 62 years, I might find a lost screw here and there...
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> But most are still in hiding -- around the floor under my
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> workbench or on top of the bench somewhere. Hiding is clearly
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> in the DNA of  every ARC-5 screw ever forged..
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> Now my level of guilt about losing all these screws has been
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> substantial.  So this confession seems therapeutic, and I feel
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> a whole lot better knowing that I am among friends who have
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> lost as many screws as I have...
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> It's great to hear about the steps you all have taken to keep any
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> screws removed under control and in captivity. Or to retrieve them
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> as David did.  I keep my blood pressure pill bottles and put any
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> screws removed in them. Then tighten the lid down firmly so they
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> can't escape.  Not totally fool proof, but I find I'm losing fewer
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> screws these days.
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> Best,
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> Tom  KE4RHH
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