[ARC5] Screw Gremlins

Mon May 8 08:03:13 EDT 2017

Sometimes, the screw gremlins show mercy if confronted with sufficiently strong, profane language.
Joe Connor 

    On Sunday, May 7, 2017 11:07 PM, Tom Bridgers <Tarheel6 at msn.com> wrote:

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

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