[R-390] Christmas Wish List

[Flowertime01 at wmconnect.com]

> 
> > So addition one: How about something like Scott Seickel's illustration
> > of how to reassemble the gear train.
> 
> I think the pictures and procedure that Scott's put together are marvelous.
> 
> Sometimes I'm not sure what to think:
> 
> 1.  There is no such geartrain teardown/clean/rebuild procedure in the
>     TM because they never thought that a tech would go to that level.
> 
> or
> 
> 2.  The radio techs of the 50's and 60's had a lot more mechanical
>     competence (and intuition for tearing down and rebuilding geartrains)
>     than I do, and that one exploded diagram was more than enough for them.
> 
> I'm no slouch in terms of tearing apart and (usually!) putting back
> together electromechanical gadgets, I THOUGHT.  Then I attempted
> to rebuild my club's R-390A in the 80's, only with some phone help
> did I get everything back together and then it was probably worse than
> before!  Now here I am a quarter-century later and I can actually
> do it, but only thanks Scott Seickel's resource (and some others too.)
> 
> Tim.
> 

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Tim,

That's just one subject in the TM we hated.
I have no clue why the subject was skipped.

The R390 TM covered PTO end point adjustment.

Several editions of the R390/A TM never picked it up.

Guys wrote long letters and some provided ever good copy to the change board 
and just had their input ignored.

We woud get nice letters back thanking us for our input.

We keep some of the stuff on KSR punch tape so we could print it on the TTY 
machines and pass it from station to station. Most shops keep a note book of 
stuff.

Good pictures we never had. A camera in an ASA building was a one ticket to 
jail. A photo of an R390 would get you more third degree than one wanted.

Roger KC6TRU