[MRCA] Mystery Tool?

[J. Forster]

I was thinking more that when you're done tweeking, you might want to try
the mechanism out w/o the inertial load of the crank, before fully
removing the crank.

I'd not toss the screw...  toss in haste, regret at leisure.

YMMV,

-John

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> On 3/28/2013 2:33 PM, J. Forster wrote:
>> At a guess, it's so the crank can be disengaged w/o removing it from the
>> set...  keeping it captive so to speak.
>
> Now that's an idea I hadn't considered, John.  My only reservation would
> be that the entire ART-13 alignment procedure is done with the tool
> attached.  If there were parts of the procedure where you used the motor
> to spin the dials, then it might make more sense - but even then there
> is plenty of room for it to spin around.  Then too, usually when you
> have a disengagement capability on a tool, you make it a positive click
> so that there are no "accidents".  I never say never, though.
> Well...almost never...
>
> Jeep, you might want to keep that longer screw for a while - maybe the
> crank does fit the ARC-1 or some other piece of Collins gear in some
> way.  I haven't had time to peruse the ARC-1 manual.
>
> Very 73,
>   - Mike
>
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