[Test-Equipment] Simpson 260 meter movement needed

[Hamel Family]

Many of the meter needles were hollow.
Get a good magnifying glass.
If it is a hollow tube, take a stone and grind off a few thousandths from
the end of the
broken tube. Then (after the easy-part practice) grind the end still in the
movement.
get a short hair or wire, glue it into the tube, butting the ground ends
together and gluing them together .
Option "B" --- put the good pointer on the good coil.
  --- HOW ---
A fly-tying vise, magnifying light, and either the presence or absence of
some good scotch single-malt (whichever works for you).
Remember,
"What one fool can build, another fool can repair" is an old quote and may
not be politically correct.

----- Original Message -----
From: <SBJohnston@aol.com>
To: <test-equipment@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, May 26, 2003 10:58 PM
Subject: [Test-Equipment] Simpson 260 meter movement needed


>
> Well, well... my Simpson 260 repairs have come to a dead halt.  Here's the
> story...
>
> At Dayton we bought an extremely nice looking 260-8P (current production)
for
> a very low price, but back at the hotel room we found its meter movement
had
> opened up (thus the good price -grin-)  that's OK - it's move fun to fix
than
> use...
>
> Not ones to be stopped, the next day at the fest we found a parted-out
beater
> 260-series 5 that looked like it had been used as a wheel chock for a B-52
> but the meter movement seemed OK.  Back at the hotel that night I
transplanted
> the meter movement into the series 8P but before I put the cover on the
meter
> face one of the guys threw his coat across it and bent the needle -
arrgghh!  I
> straightened it out, but it was't right.  I rebalanced it and it was OK,
> but...
>
> Now after the trip home I see that the needle has broken completely off!
I
> need another movement - this 260-8 is too nice to leave disabled...  I
seached
> the web but so far no luck.  I swear I've seen someone selling replacement
> front panels w/meters but I can't find them now.  Was a surplus place I
> thought...
>
> Anyone have a Simpson 260 meter movement laying around?  Maybe some of
their
> panel meters used the same movement?
>
> Thanks...
>
> Steve WD8DAS
>
> sbjohnston@aol.com
>
>
>
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