[Milsurplus] Rheostat Repair

B. Smith smithab11 at comcast.net
Thu Jun 13 14:31:46 EDT 2024


Cut off the "crimp"end of a small terminal and use it to "crimp"the two 
wires together.
Plenty of pots on ePay and also see Surplus Sales of Nebraska.
k4che

On 6/13/2024 9:39 AM, Mark K3MSB wrote:
> Hi All
>
> One of the wire wound pots for filament control on my TBW-4 has a 
> break in the wire.
>
> I cleaned the break and added a parallel wire and attempted to solder 
> the two.
>
> The solder will not stick to the wire on the pot.   I tried different 
> iron temperatures etc but to no avail.
>
> Any ideas as  to alternate ways to fix this?   Photos attached.
>
> 73 Mark K3MSB
>
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