[Collins] KWS-1 Part Needed

[The Shultz's]

Hi Lorin, Thank you very much for your kind and very funny response.

I think the "Maine" problem with these kind of poltergeists is that they
somehow reside in Maine. In fact, that is where I traveled one sunny day
last summer to pick up this very KWS-1.

It's quite possible that the sheer proximity to one another caused this kind
of spontaneous rebelious behaviour. Before long, I'm sure you will be
missing many more parts too if this thing continues.

My friend in Michigan contends mine was formerly used as a lobster trap
before I found it and I have considered returning it to its rightful place
more than once!

I would be most grateful for a drawing though it is burned in my memory
almost and now that I have removed the whole RF cage once again (much easier
the second time) it won't be that hard to cut one but the sketch would
really be helpful. I will send my mailing address off list.

I suggest that the only way to work on the grid compartment is to remove the
entire RF cage. Now if you want real fun try and replace the PA roller
inductor which is how I got into this mess, actually grateful that I did
because I found several broken wires (gee could someone have been in there
before?) In addition a colony of mice had resided in the grid compartment
leaving some of their "belongings" behind as well. My sockets are OK though
they are slightly different Johnson numbers. Of course now that I'm an
expert if one fails I could fix it in an evening (assuming the plotergeist
was on vacation).

It great to have a "Tony" to help you with this project as it is an
intimidating collection of iron. I had to take several deep breaths to start
measuring voltages in the power supply but I'm ok there too now.

Thanks again, Roger NJ2R

----- Original Message -----
From: <LorinH@aol.com>
To: <byorslf@earthlink.net>; <Collins@mailman.qth.net>;
<collins@listserve.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 7:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Collins] KWS-1 Part Needed


> K1KP and WA1PGB to the rescue.
>
> Hi Roger.
>
> Despair not.
>
> My name is Lorin (WA1PGB on the coast of Maine).  I am restoring a KWS-1
> under the extraordinary guidance of K1KP, Tony.  Tony fowarded to me your
post In
> the course of this repair/restortaion of my own KWS-1 which I have owned
for
> 45 years,  I had diagnosed that one of the final tube sockets was shorted.
To
> check out this final socket I had to remove the bottom cover to the final
> compartment (not a fun job) and after its removal ran into the very grid
connector
> plate of which you speak.
>
> First, Roger, know that your loosing this part is no accident. The
> electronically correct technical understanding for the cause of this
disappearance is,
> quite simply, a poltergeist.
>
> Since working on this rig for over two months, I have watched in amazement
as
> piece after piece and tool after tool simply disappeared.  It is likely to
be
> a specific psychological blindness.  But have you noticed there is a kind
of
> dark sinister playfulness, a disembodied sense of glee in the air at our
> perplexed stunned disbelief?  Colin Wilson makes very clear that these
highly
> charged emotiional frustrations are what we have come to call a
ploltergiest
> phenomenon,  the "I KNOW I left it here!"
>
> Be that as it may.  i wiil be happy to trace the shape of my own grid
sheet
> metal  connecting plate  for you on paper (if i can find the thing)  and
send
> it, if you tell me where.
>
> While on the subject of this interesting part (with its very strange
looking
> rubber insulated thing descending into the lower compartment, I believe
that
> our esteemed Art Collins had either a sinister sense of humor or he was
in
> truth a spiritual master who set sanity- threatening hurdles for us to
surmount
> on our spiritual journeys through the Hero's Journey of repairing one of
these
> rigs.  Have you ever encountered a more difficult pair of parts to remove?
I
> can't wait to put them back together.
>
> You may call me anytime for moral support, but be prepared to hear a grown
> man cry.
>
> Best
>
> Lorin
>
> WA1PGB
>
> 207 567-3219
>
> Lorin Hollander
> Cape Jellison
> Stockton Springs ME 04981
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