[Hammarlund] Had more flakey micas!

[Phil Atchley]

Hi.
Now I know why I don't put bottom covers, bottom turret covers etc back on
until after a set is well burned in 8^(

This afternoon during burn-in I was listening to the 17MHz band and the set
started jumping frequency just like band 6 did yesterday, though not nearly
as bad.  Pulled the covers, removed the oscillator coil module for band 5
and replaced the micas "TWICE".  The first time I misread the parts list and
had the wrong value capacitor in one of the positions.  The set wouldn't
track worth a hoot!  I quickly figured out that something was amiss and
corrected my mistake.  I'm getting to be an old hand at removing those coil
modules.

Anyway,  The repair was successful and the set is now nice and stable on
band 5 too!  Funny it didn't show up while I was doing the alignment
yesterday.  I'm beginning to think that a re-cap job should also include the
mica caps, though I've had very little trouble with them in the past.

73 de Phil  KO6BB


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