[Hammarlund] Yaesu Rotor Problem

[K0DAN]

After I wrote you, I started thinking about that 35 year old cable. Hope you 
do get a "good day" to climb, but I'm putting my money on that old cable 
being really crappy. One of the cables (some allegedly high quality neoprene 
coated thing) which controls the limit switches on my motoroized tower is 
only about 7 years old and the outside jacket is cracked and the inner leads 
are also cracked and frayed, and the twisted copper wire shows signs of 
corrosion and moisture. So much for it being high quality cable!

Good luck.

dt
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glen Zook" <gzook at yahoo.com>
To: "K0DAN" <k0dan at comcast.net>; "Barry Fox" <foxbw at comcast.net>; 
<hammarlund at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 10:37 AM
Subject: Re: [Hammarlund] Yaesu Rotor Problem


> It isn't that I don't want to climb, but that I suffer
> from rhuematoid arthritis and and it has become
> difficult for me to climb.  I used to climb all the
> time.  I am hoping for a "good day" or two so that I
> can get up the tower.  Fortunately, I don't have to go
> all the way to the top to get to the rotor.
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> Since the tower is "house bracketed" as well as guyed
> the rotor is only about 35 feet above the roof.
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> Keep your fingers crossed!
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> If the entire rotor had to be replaced I think that I
> would "live" with the problem for a while.
>
> Glen, K9STH
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> --- K0DAN <k0dan at comcast.net> wrote:
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> I a\seem to remember reading that you were loathe to
> climb...I can understand. However, a connector
> clean-up or even a cable replacement beats the
> alternative of replacing the whole damn rotor. This
> message was meant to paint the glass as 1/2
> full....hope I succeeded.
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> Glen, K9STH
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> Website:  http://k9sth.com
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