[Elecraft] Serious foot switches

[WILLIS COOKE]

My foot switch that I bought around 1990 at a ham fest
and had stood up to thousands of contacts in many
phone contests has only the identifying sticker "Made
in Taiwan"

Cookie, K5EWJ

--- Barry N1EU <barry.n1eu at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> Bill W5WVO wrote:
> > 
> >  I've had to repair my Heil foot switch numerous
> times. 
> > The little "e" ring that holds the pivot axle in
> has a habit of coming off 
> > spontaneously (I completely lost it a while back)
> > 
> Your description does not match the pivot hardware
> in my two Heil foot
> switches.  So it seems that Heil has gone through a
> few designs of the pivot
> mechanism.
> 
> The pivot mechanism in my foot switches consists
> entirely of a single pivot
> screw that is threaded on the end with an unthreaded
> shoulder up toward the
> screw head.  So the pivot screw becomes fixed with
> the inner half of the
> (threaded) clamshell and rotates freely around the
> outer half of the
> (unthreaded) clamshell.  The threads eventually fail
> and the pivot screws
> keeps loosening and falling out.  The kludge fix is
> to discard the pivot
> screws, drill out the holes, and use a single long
> machine screw as the
> pivot axis and secure it on the far end with a
> nylock nut.
> 
> Evidently other Heil designs may be more reliable. 
> Mine were purchased 5-7
> years ago and started to fail about two years later.
>  Lots of use during ssb
> contests.
> 
> 73,
> Barry N1EU
> 
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Willis 'Cookie' Cooke 
K5EWJ