[R-390] Mystery solved....sortakinda...

[Todd Bigelow - PS]

blw wrote:

>>Now it's time to bite the bullet and do it all the right way. No more
>>piecemeal approaches to specific symptoms. Somehow I got distracted with
>>the mongrel A and never got back to the 'good' radio, probably because
>>the mongrel worked!
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>>~ Boomer,  KA1KAQ
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>Hold up a minute and let me get this straight. You have a radio that just
>spontaneously shoots out parts all the way to the front porch, somehow comes
>up missing parts, won't receive except the bc band, then it won't get that
>suddenly, and you call the other one that works fine a 'mongrel'? Something
>about this picture ain't right.
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I agree 100%. What's not right about it is that it's all true! Okay, I 
confess - I was "attempting to manually manipulate" the gear train with 
a finger when the gear flew off.

(Guess I should've added that I hauled the beast out to the front porch 
to apply the temporary WD-40 bath to the geartrain)

The mongrel came from a list member a few years ago when he was cleaning 
house. I bought 4 radios from him ranging from a BC-348 to the mongrel,. 
$400 for all. Best $100 I ever spent on a radio, methinks.

Here's the essential truth:

Teledyne = clean (sorta), complete, looks like new, works like a stone

Mongrel = missing meters, covers, overall scruffy looking, works like an 
R-390A

~ Boomer