[R-390] Removing Megacycle Change shaft

Barry n4buq at knology.net
Fri Jul 10 10:17:42 EDT 2026


I tried turning off "Smart features" and that seems to have stopped it.  For now...

73,
Barry - N4BUQ

> It's on my Windows machine with a Chrome browser.  I think there's a clickable
> item at the top of some of the newer posts that I think can cause it to display
> the AI stuff; however, when I started the GMail session this morning to read
> new messages, the first one in this thread automatically displayed a rather
> long "AI overview" of the "conversation".  I find that somewhat annoying and
> would rather not see the "noise".
> 
> Thanks,
> Barry - N4BUQ
> 
>> Hi Barry, on what ?
>> A iPhone ?
>> Jack14 iPhone 16e
>> 
>> Le 10 juill. 2026 à 09:23, Barry Scott via R-390 <r-390 at mailman.qth.net> a écrit
>> :
>> 
>>Is there any way to turn off the AI summary at the top of the messages?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Barry - N4BUQ
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Jul 7, 2026 at 8:28 AM rochep--- via R-390 <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Awesome!! Will be a miracle if I get this thing back together again and
>>> working! (Like it was before I ripped it apart to replace a MHz gear clamp
>>> that would have been EASY to replace if I knew the clamp was on the
>>> outside!)
>>> 
>>> Paul
>>> 
>>> From: Jacques Fortin <jacques.f at videotron.ca>
>>> Date: Tuesday, July 7, 2026 at 9:24 AM
>>> To: rochep at comcast.net <rochep at comcast.net>; r-390 at mailman.qth.net <
>>> r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
>>> Subject: RE: [R-390] Removing Megacycle Change shaft
>>> 
>>> Hello Paul,
>>> 1_ Clamp faces OUT.
>>> 2_ MHz gear mates with the INNER gear of the differential.
>>> 
>>> See pictures.
>>> 
>>> 73, Jacques, VE2JFE in Montreal
>>> 
>>> A quick question for gear re-assemblers. For the MHZ gear (on MHZ shaft)
>>> Chapter 10 of manual says the clamp faces IN when assembling (page 10-15)
>>> but another section of Chapter 10 shows the clamp facing OUT. Chapter
>>> 6.3.19 also says the MHZ gear clamp faces OUT.
>>> I ask because when the clamp is facing IN I am unable to merge the gear
>>> with the INNER gear of that big “differential assembly” (which uses the
>>> detent spring).  Regardless of clamp in or clamp out, does the MHZ gear
>>> merge with the OUTERMOST gear of that differential assembly (as does that
>>> small gear just above the MHZ gear) or does the MHz gear merge with the
>>> INNER gear of the differential assembly? It looks to be inner from the
>>> pictures, but hard to tell for sure.
>>> Paul
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