[R-390] Pinned Down - advice needed

[Chris Kepus]

Hi Bob,

You said, " How the heck did you see that these pins were hollow?"

The secret is to use a 10X loupe BEFORE taking Demerol. 

I rotated the shaft so the pin orientation was vertical. The loupe allowed
me to clearly see the end of the pins. When looking at the pin end through
the loupe, I saw this tiny dot of white in the middle of the pin end. I was
seeing the white paper I had under the PTO gear box. It was a surprise to me
that I could see through a hole whose diameter was barely large enough for a
piece of #26 wire to feed through with a tad bit of friction.

Close up pictures of the pinned gears and levers will be posted within the
set of pictures of the ME-398/U on Flickr. I managed to get a few shots of
the pin ends by holding the loupe in front of the lens on my camera. 

Chris - W7JPG





-----Original Message-----
From: r-390-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:r-390-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
On Behalf Of rbethman
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 8:43 AM
To: r-390 at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [R-390] Pinned Down - advice needed

Chris,

I bet the Demerol did take away the pain.  So it begs the question - How the
heck did you see that these pins were hollow?

Bob - N0DGN