[Hammarlund] HQ-100C Alignment

[Roy Morgan]

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> If the slug is stuck ...a couple of things to consider....try  
> threading in an additional small slug to increase the inductance...  
> If the inductance is too high with the core stuck where it is then  
> brass reduces the inductance and you could experiment with inserting  
> a brass rod a small distance into the coil to adjust it.

Roger,

THANKS for that suggestion.  I have here a tuning test rod with iron  
and brass in either end.  They, of course were used to test a tuned  
circuit to see which way it needed to be changed.

Your ideas fall directly under the troubleshooting corollary of the  
following fundamental law of nature:


Morgan's Law of Inverse Perversity:

If you have no spare for a critical part, that part will fail at the  
most inopportune time.  If you do have a spare, or spares, the  
original one will never fail and you'll never use the spare.

Morgan's Law of Inverse Perversity - Troubleshooting Corollary:

If you have no information on an obscure failure mode, that failure  
will happen to you at the most inopportune time.  If you do have  
complete, detailed information, the system will never fail in that way.

Roy

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