[R-390] Friction in KC Change Chain

Randy and Sherry Guttery comcents at bellsouth.net
Mon Feb 28 17:10:28 EST 2011


On 2/27/2011 9:55 AM, Curt Nixon wrote:
> Thanks Drew:
>
> The seal O-ring is EXACTLY what it feels like.  I mentioned that to
> another tech off list and said it was smooth but felt like an shaft
> sealed with an O-ring.  I have dry nitrogen here purge with but being
> there is no valve, it must have been assembled in a nitrogen chamber
> which I DON'T have :).
of course you do...  with a bit of imagination... Here's a 
small blurb on nitrogen "purging" and/or charging...

http://www.comcents.com/radios/PTO.html

Since there is quite a bit on repairing, linearizing, etc. 
I didn't get into any of that - but there wasn't much on 
nitrogen - so here 'tis....

HTHs...

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