[Heathkit] DX-60 Rotary Switch

[Bwana Bob]

Me, too.

When I was building my DX-60A, I put too much stress on the ceramic band 
switch wafer by bending the stiff leads to the final tank coil. Rather 
than order a new one, my dad fixed it with epoxy.  We heat cured it by 
placing the wafer over the area of the gas stove where the pilot burner 
was. That epoxy hardened overnight like glass. After 47 years, it's 
still holding.
On the other hand, I have never had any luck with 5 minute epoxy as a 
structural adhesive. It seems to always stay rubbery. Get some really 
good 24-hour cure epoxy.

                 73,

                 Bob WB2VUF

On 3/23/2014 7:51 PM, bfetters wrote:
> Ken,
>
> If you cannot find a switch I have had great success in using epoxy to repair even hopeless cases.
>
> Let me know if you need details off line.
>
> Buck
>
> W0LC
>
>
> Sent from my Galaxy S®III
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Ken Miller K6CTW <k6ctw at earthlink.net>
> Date:03/23/2014  6:28 PM  (GMT-06:00)
> To: heathkit at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [Heathkit] DX-60 Rotary Switch
>
> All - while cleaning up the rotary mode switch on the DX-60 I'm re-manufacturing, noticed that the ceramic is cracked.  Does anyone know whgere I can get a replacement part.  Or at least a switch base that I can re-build to make like the original?
>
> Thanks in advance for any/all ideas.
>
> 73 - Ken Miller, K6CTW
>
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