[Hallicrafters] radio goes dead during sweep

[jackiv at juno.com]

I really hate to get in here but-----The worst thing to use around any
radio is steel wool. Tuning caps seem to attract these little devils.
If it looks like the end plates have not been bent in or other wise bent,
a business card, no thicker, saturated with de-oxit (or your favorite)
and slide between the plates to clean them. If the card seems too thick
use a stiff piece of bond paper.
One must be very careful as the stator sections are merely staked into
the cap. frame and the insulation can get a tad loose.  then you do have
problems.
been there, done that...
jack      jackiv at juno.com

On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 05:51:12 -0800 "Patricia Brennan"
<hotra at frontiernet.net> writes:
> Mike, It is likely that a plate or some plates in the tuning 
> condenser are touching each other as you turn them. Do you hear a 
> little crackling just before the sound disappears ? I have had 
> complete success in realigning them, but it sometimes takes a lot of 
> patience. My tools are a plastic picnic knife and a popsicle stick. 
> Sliding one or the other down between the touching plates and GENTLY 
> twisting or GENTLY rocking them away from each other will do the 
> trick. But, remember one of Newton's laws while you twist and rock, 
> that for every action, there is an opposite and equal reaction ! 
> Plenty of light and a soft touch....Good luck.   Paul Brennan  
> hotra at frontiernet.net
> 
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