[Kenwood] Frequency knob for a tm-241a

[Steve]

At 03:55 PM 12/16/2020, Ray LaRue wrote:
>Gentle persons,
>I am in need of the frequency tuning knob for a TM-241A Vhf radio. 
>Kenwood no longer has any left. Does anyone on the list have or know 
>of a broken or junker radio, they would separate one from?

Way back soon after the earth was first formed and a few decades 
after the Gonset Sidewinder was invented to promote store-bought 2m 
SSB rigs, I acquired a TR-9130 for less than a song and dance (had to 
sing for the thing, but not dance 8-). But it was missing the main 
tuning knob. I hunted high and low and for some reason, just never 
thought of ordering one from KW. Meanwhile, I found an old boatanchor 
Dakaware spinner knob that fit and worked just great. Some 20 years 
later, I happened to be visiting a friend and lo and behold, he had 
sitting on his workbench what looked to me like a TR-9130 main tuning 
knob. I asked him about it. He'd repaired a -9130 for some other guy 
awhile back, and when the guy came to pick it up, the guy decided he 
didn't like the stock knob. They hunted around and eventually found 
another knob the guy liked and my friend installed it instead of the 
original TR-9130 knob. My friend said he told the guy to take the old 
knob just in case he wanted to put it back on, but the guy forgot it 
when he left. Then the guy moved across country after a few 
months,  leaving the knob behind.

So my friend gave me the original TR-9130 tuning knob and I've been 
happy ever since  8-D

Odd thing, though; oncit I installed the correct, original knob, I 
decided I liked the larger, old boatanchor Dakaware spinner knob much 
better, and reinstalled it 8-P

SteveH, K0XP