[R-390] Veeder-Root counter

[ka9egw at britewerkz.com]

Take the veeder-root off and turn the kc input shaft [the one that gets the
little bevel gear] by hand and you can feel the binding and roughness...the
rest of the rf deck i'm quite satisfied with how it turned out...

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Foley [mailto:redmenaced at yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 7:05 PM
To: ka9egw at britewerkz.com
Subject: Re: [R-390] Veeder-Root counter


I hate to sound like a broken record but that sounds like a bent shaft,...
somewhere.

Joe




--- On Sun, 8/29/10, ka9egw at britewerkz.com <ka9egw at britewerkz.com> wrote:

> From: ka9egw at britewerkz.com <ka9egw at britewerkz.com>
> Subject: [R-390] Veeder-Root counter
> To: r-390 at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Sunday, August 29, 2010, 9:00 PM
> Man, this counter mechanism is
> junk.  Without it the RF deck tunes with one
> finger.  Put the counter on, and it's rough, it binds
> hard in spots...back
> the bevel gear off to full disengagement and the rest of
> the geartrain's
> smooth again.  I don't know if this indicates a very
> new Veeder-Root, or a
> very old one, or if this is just a bad example.
>
> I have no idea what I might get away with for lubing it, so
> I haven't.  I'm
> not sure lube would help; it feels like it's full of burrs
> somewhere in it's
> mechanism.
>
> Anyone else ever run into this, and what did ya do to fix
> it?  How do you
> even get the @#$% thing apart?
>
> 73, Brian KA9EGW
>
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