[Milsurplus] Hot PE-73 relay redux

[Laura and Jim]

At Dennis W7QHO's recommendation, I dropped a golf cart starting solenoid in there and it works well enough to get me on the air. Runs cool, but doesn't match the mounting. Good band-aid, though.

I opened up the coil and it's a masterpiece of simplicity - big 1/2 inch square copper contacts driven by a fat scramble-wound coil wound on a bobbin. Looks to be ~#26 wire; 2 wires wound parallel and parts of it were pretty crispy. The progressive short theory looks to have been correct. Should be a simple fix once I get the new wire. I have a new 15# roll of #20 that I may try just because it's handy.

Cheers!

Jim Falls
K6FWT
Eureka, CA