[Hallicrafters] SR-150 loading coil

[Roy Morgan]

On Jun 24, 2008, at 4:52 PM, Frank F. wrote:

> Hi gentlemen,
>    I'm going to finish working on my SR-150, ... the 80 meter  
> portion of the loading coil... overheated, melted the plastic,

Frank,

If I had such a rebuild to do here's how I would go about it:

Get some lengths of Plexiglas strips, or cut some off a small bit of  
sheet.  Down the center line drill a row of holes the same size as the  
wire of the coil and in your case, spaced 1/16 inch apart. Then with a  
very thin saw (the Xacto Knife saw might be just right) slit the thing  
into two parts right down the center of the row of holes.  Even if not  
much of each hole is left, clamping the sawed-apart bars over the  
turns of wire will make a very nice looking job of it.  Plexiglas glue  
will cement the whole thing together as nice as you please.  Note:  
Coil dope will  NOT "melt" the plexiglass. The solvent for styrene in  
coil dope is different from the plexiglas glue or solvent.

Roy


Roy Morgan
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