[Boatanchors] 2013 myth

[Mark K3MSB]

Absolutely Bill!  It's the pits to snap a terminal strip lug or tube socket
lug while trying to wrestle that old wire lead out!

Plus, if a future owner of the radio wants to return it to original
condition they'll have a much easier time of it.

73 Mark K3MSB

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On Jul 8, 2013 8:12 AM, "Bill Cromwell" <wrcromwell at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 07/08/2013 07:15 AM, Rob Atkinson wrote:
>
>> --snip----
>>
>> Don't worry about some perfectionist with his nose in the air--go
>> ahead and clip out old caps and use the left over leads in the rig to
>> attach the new ones to, by taking the new cap leads and wrapping them
>> around jeweler screwdriver shafts to make quiggs then push the quigs
>> on to the left over lead fragments still in the rig and solder.
>> 73
>>
>> Rob
>> K5UJ
>>
>>
> Hi Rob..
> ...Hal,
>
> I usually reuse the old leads anyway. It's just plain easier. It avoids
> damage to tube sockets and terminal lugs trying to get the old leads out.
> Often there are several other wires in the same terminal lug and some of
> them are heavy. With multiple leads there is a lot more solder and
> resoldering requires a lot more heat applied to those aged parts.
> Especially if it's a ground tag.
>
> Owners who want "museum quality" will not do this, of course, but that is
> a personal choice. My own choice is obviously different and I think the
> original intent was to apply electricity and an antenna and get those
> radios on the air...a viewpoint that also supports the "museum quality"
> idea but from a different direction.
>
> 73,
>
> Bill  KU8H
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