[Hallicrafters] SR-500 VFO

[Jeff]

Following up --

Can anyone provide a photo of an SR-160 or SR-500 VFO assembly? It 
definitely looks like the former owner of this one totally wrecked the 
VFO assembly - On further examination, it appears that the VFO cover on 
the bottom is missing, a spline screw was brutally drilled out of the 
dial, and the shielding around the variable is missing.  The VFO appears 
to be about 1 MHz off.

According to the manuals, this should be the same for the 160 and 500.  
Any help would be appreciated.  I do not get mail reliably to my 
personal address unless you are whitelisted, so if you have any advice 
(or replacement VFO for this rig) please let me know via the list.


Thanks -

Jeff

WB3JIH


On 9/11/2016 7:25 PM, Jeff wrote:
> Hi All -
>
>
> Picked up a SR-500 in very rough shape, and am starting to go through 
> it.  A previous owner mangled the VFO -- there was a terminal strip 
> cold soldered to the chassis, and no apparent connection to the 
> variable capacitor.  It was a real mess.
>
> After removing all of the "mods", I have this:
>
> http://podengo.com/SR-500/SR-500-VFO.jpg
>
> Unfortunately, it appears that I can't get the VFO tuned to it's 
> requisite frequency now.  Following the WD0GOF guidelines, I should 
> see 9 MHz when set to 3.8 MHz -- this rig reports back approximately 
> 7.8 MHz.
>
> Can anyone tell me if the VFO has been messed up beyond repair, or any 
> suggestions as to how to get it set right?  The last owner really 
> abused this radio, and it's taken me a while to get it back, but I 
> think it will start to go if I can get the VFO where it's supposed to be.
>
>
> Any thoughts or tech advice is appreciated.  Please reply to list.
>
>
>
> Jeff
>
> WB3JIH
>
>
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