[Milsurplus] TCK-4

[Bob Camp]

HI

If you find a MG, check the bearings and brushes before you spin it up. Yes it’s a major pain in
the tail to do the bearings. Yes you really want to hear it hummm along rather than tear it down. 
Yes it’s 300 lb of nonsense to work with. No I’ve never run that specific set, I’ve just run similar 
ones over the years. Much easier to rebuild one *before* the fire :) Even if it has ball bearings
from the 1930’s you can still get them today, in town, cheap (at least that’s been what I’ve found). 

Bob



> On Feb 7, 2017, at 8:45 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon <kgordon2006 at frontier.com> wrote:
> 
> On 7 Feb 2017 at 20:31, Bruce Gentry wrote:
> 
>> I hope you can find the original power supply to go with it. The MG sets 
>> were usually 120 or 220 volt DC drive, so supplying that today is not a 
>> problem.
> 
> Right. 4 big diodes, a 220 VAC line, and maybe a big bunch of filter caps. I have all of that. 
> Finding an original MG set is another matter...
> 
> Besides, as I remember it, those things are big and weigh a lot. Like near 300 lbs.
> 
> Ken W7EKB
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