[Boatanchors] Crummy Grounds

[Rob Atkinson]

If you have a piece of gear that's vintage with chassis mountings done
via rivets, and the equipment behaves oddly with flaky or intermittent
problems, chances are all that will go away if a rivet on each chassis
mount is replaced with a nut, bolt, and star washer cranked down good
and tight.

73

Rob
K5UJ

On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 8:59 AM <w5jo at brightok.net> wrote:
>
> Those rivets that I can reach I give them a light buffing and solder on them
> to the chassis.  I learned to hate rivets a long time ago because I tend to
> keep equipment for several years, and everything I tried, would let the
> problem return eventually.
>
> Jim
> W5JO