[Hallicrafters] Slipping dial cord

[David C. Hallam]

Mouser's catalog 125 mL bottle $7.95  MG Chemicals

http://www.mouser.com/catalog/catalogusd/646/2329.pdf

I use it all the time when replacing parts in boat anchors.  If you 
don't have a bottle on your bench, you should have.

David
KW4DH

On 7/29/2013 7:46 PM, rbethman wrote:
> It would be a fairly safe bet that the majority of us that go into
> restoring an old radio do not go hunting for exotic methods and materials.
>
> Would you be so kind as to providing a link to this particular item and
> its cost?
>
> It would be enlightening.  Although it may also be amusing in the cost
> department, as it has been shown that music emporiums provide
> inexpensive rosins that are normally readily available within a very
> short distance.
>
> Even here in a city of less than 160,000 population, we have at least
> four or five inside a two to three mile radius to the inhabitants.
>
> Bob - N0DGN
>
> On 7/29/2013 7:00 PM, David C. Hallam wrote:
>> It's 50% rosin, 25% ethanol and 25% 2-butanol
>>
>> David
>> KW4DH
>>
>> On 7/29/2013 6:01 PM, rbethman wrote:
>>> Seriously?
>>>
>>> Liquid rosin flux, (or soldering paste flux.), as is on many of our
>>> benches, IS Petroleum based!
>>>
>>> Bob - N0DGN
>>>
>>> On 7/29/2013 1:49 PM, David C. Hallam wrote:
>>>> What about using liquid rosin flux?  Or make your own.  Get some
>>>> pitchers' powdered rosin at you local sporting goods store and
>>>> dissolve it in alcohol.
>>>>
>>>> David
>>>> KW4DH
>>>>
>>>> On 7/29/2013 1:04 PM, TC Dailey wrote:
>>>>> Dial cord slippage - SPECIFICALLY, use "Cello" rosin (music stores) -
>>>>> it's the stickiest and isn't hard as concrete to put on.
>>>>>
>>>>> Tom - W0EAJ
>>>
>
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