[Boatanchors] 2013 myth

[Bry Carling]

Bob,

 I had a number of those really nice individual stand offs, with Y shaped Terminals on top of them. Screw hole in the bottom. Nobody seems to want them. Pretty sure they're still here.

73
Bry AF4K 

rbethman <rbethman at comcast.net> wrote:

>On 7/8/2013 8:12 AM, Bill Cromwell 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
>Looks like I'm NOT alone!  That's the way I've been going through an
>old 
>R-390A.  The standoffs with the terminal on the top are brittle as 
>heck.  Since they wrapped every wire around tabs on strips, tube 
>sockets, and the standoffs, I'm NOT breaking more things by attempting 
>to remove all the solder to get the two or three turns of a lead 
>completely off!
>
>It makes no sense to then have to replace hardware just because I 
>replace a single component!
>
>Clipping leads and leaving enough to solder to is common sense. Most of
>
>the time I don't even make a quigg.  I just bend the left over leads 
>into a "U" shape, do the same with the new component's lead, so that 
>they are hooked together, and apply solder.
>
>If you've got a good shiny solder connection, as opposed to one that is
>
>a dull and obviously a cold one, then all is just fine.
>
>The military had a requirement for the insulated standoffs vs. a 
>terminal strip.  I will make an assumption that they were purportedly 
>"more tolerant" of movement and rough handling.  I know - assume - 
>dangerous concept!  However, the only other "terminal strips" in the 
>R-390A that I see, such as the power supply module, is a screw terminal
>
>barrier strip.  The barrier keeping one from creating an inadvertent 
>connection between two adjacent screw terminals.  You had to work at it
>
>by making a jumper.
>
>Bob - N0DGN
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