[R-390] More geartrain rebuild info
Barry
n4buq at aol.com
Fri Feb 25 09:30:08 EST 2005
This geartrain was just a tad dirtier than my first one, but not by much. I
did not tear down the first one because I had no instructions for putting it
back together. Now that I've done the complete teardown on this one and
found what I have found, once I get this radio finished, I'm probably going
to tear down my first one and do a complete cleanup on it too.
After taking all the gears off, I took the cam/frame assembly to the
automotive shop here at work and washed it in one of their parts cleaning
tanks. It didn't really do much to cut the dried grease. I tried denatured
alchohol with not much better results and am now using kerosene. That works
a little better than the other things I've tried, but it doesn't really
dissolve the dried grease without a lot of rubbing either. While it might
work better, I really don't want to have an open container of gasoline. Any
other good solvents? Brake Cleaner? Carb Cleaner? Fire?
Barry(III) - N4BUQ
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