[HBR] Looking for some ideas on a slide rune dial....

Thu, 14 Mar 2002 21:04:20 -0600

Hello Kees-
    What do you think about the Eddystone 598? I have never used one before.
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From: "Sandy and Kees Talen" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 7:38 PM
Subject: [HBR] Looking for some ideas on a slide rune dial....


> Open to ideas and suggestions.......
>
> Since the Eddystone 898 dials are expensive, difficult to locate,
> and too large for the smaller HBR-11, it would be nice to come
> up with an inexpensive, useable, and easy to build slide rule dial
> adaptable to both an existing HBR-16 or HBR-11.
>
> The dual Jackson Bros verniers are excellent, so the knob to tuning
> capacitor drive is solutioned at 36:1. The only hangup is capacitor
> shaft to a slide rule indicator. Maybe using a dial cord driven off a
> pulley on the capacitor shaft. I want something which can be
> retrofitted onto the older HBRs without having to resort to the
> elevated subchassis used for the 898 dial.  Also something which
> could be scaled down to "look right" on a smaller HBR-11/12.
>
> 73s  Kees K5BCQ
>
>
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