[Milsurplus] Wanted TCS RF Gain Control

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How are those pots failing? What happens? I'm wondering if there's not a fix internally.

Wayne
WB4OGM

On Sunday, April 27, 2025 at 09:37:26 AM MDT, Thomas Adams <quixote2 at ix.netcom.com> wrote: 

If any replacement pots turn up, I could use one too! That pot seems to be a 
common failure point in these receivers... and the configuration is odd enough
to make them a bit of a problem.

Mr. T., W9LBB

-----Original Message-----
From: B. Smith <smithab11 at comcast.net>
Sent: Apr 27, 2025 10:08 AM
To: David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com>, Milsurplus <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Wanted TCS RF Gain Control

Thanks for the info Dave.  BTW I often refer to  your TCS series  On "Restoring the TCS Receiver Part 1,2, and 3. "

K4CHE

On 4/27/2025 10:44 AM, David Stinson wrote:
> If you know of anyone with a stocked TCS spares chest
> (not the one for the power supplies- the one for the radios),
> it has a boxed replacement for that pot.  That's where
>  I found one for my TCS-12.  I know of no other source.
> GL OM DE Dave AB5S
>
> On 4/26/2025 7:56 PM, B. Smith via Milsurplus wrote:

>> Wanted  a 100K pot for TCS receiver RF gain. This pot has a switch >> that is normally closed during rotation of the shaft and is activated >> open (switch clicks)  at the full CW position of the pot. Most pots >> have a switch at the CCW position of the shaft.

>> K4CHE