[Boatanchors] Repairing a Royal 7000 tuning capacitor (the AM/SWone), LONG POST

[Richard Knoppow]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil KO6BB" <KO6BB at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Boatanchor List" <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 5:43 PM
Subject: [Boatanchors] Repairing a Royal 7000 tuning 
capacitor (the AM/SWone), LONG POST


> Hi All,
>
> The following is a re-post of one that I posted to the 
> Zenith
> Transoceanic group.  I feel that others here may find it 
> useful and the
> same repair procedure may be useful for other tuning 
> capacitors. . .
> 
> ************************************************************

   Procedure snipped.

BRAVO!

     I have seen crooked caps in other equipment including a 
Hewlett-Packard 606-A signal generator. Stators not aligned 
with the rotors and rotors bent a lot to compensate. Even 
though I worked for -hp- at the time I have no idea how this 
happened but suspect it was that way when new.
     Another place one finds mis-aligned caps is in the 
Hammarlund SP-600 receiver. These caps have adjustable 
stators. I think they drift with time. Sometimes someone has 
bent the rotors to try to compensate, in fact there is a web 
site detailing how to do this DON'T DO IT!!, its not 
necessary. What _is_ necessary is to remove the cap assembly 
(not too difficult) and align the stators so they are 
centered between the rotors and lined up at the edges.


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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk at ix.netcom.com