[Hallicrafters] S-53 slugs n' tuning - Slug Fest

[Greg Mijal]

Be careful turning those slugs.  They can pull the tube right off the base.
Try an overnight solution of Liquid Wrench fir
st!
Drilling thru the center and inserting a jewelers screw driver for torque
has worked for me.
If those slugs are going to get destroyed and removed and you don't have
exact demensional replacements you can try this as a last ditch effort:
After the tube(s)are cleared out nicely and you have another slug but it
doesn't fit but goes into the tube, use hot candle wax to hold it in place
while you are tuning then let the stuff harden.  It takes two people to do
this one. One to drip the hot candle wax in and the other to do the tuning
process and then hold the slug in place.
It takes a bit of industry to do it right but it may save an otherwise
unsavable set.
Use the same kind of slug material as the old one too.
I have a few of the larger sized slugs in my junk boxes, tell me what the
demensions are for yours and I can have a look.
Yours for the postage.
73's
Greg
WA7LYO
Kinston NC
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas C. Dailey - Dailey Services, LLC" <daileyservices at qwest.net>
To: <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 8:16 AM
Subject: [Hallicrafters] S-53 slugs n' tuning


> Bob,
>
> I have to agree with Ed R. on his commentary.  Typically, when I'm
aligning
> something, I set the volume level so that my AC voltmeter (across the
> speaker) is about half-scale with reasonable signal level.  It's just
easier
> to see the peaking that way.
>
> On the slugs, I have had some success - some - by removing the IF can,
> taking the assembly out - actually cracking the old slugs, and after
removal
> of the pieces, screwing in new slugs that have not been buggered up.  If
> your old ones are really, really stuck, and are in the area of the
windings,
> you may just be stuck with NOT realigning the slugs, rather some other
> theatrical way of tuning.  (know any dentists?  Their tiny vibratory
drills
> could make short work of stuck slugs).
>
> Tom - W0EAJ
>
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