[Yaesu] FT-211 (any good)

Wed, 6 Nov 2002 20:53:19 -0500

----- Original Message -----
From: "Constantine Thomas" <[email protected]>
To: "Fern Rivard" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 8:04 PM
Subject: [Yaesu] FT-211 (any good)

> I just won a bid on eBey for an FT-211 that doesn't work.
> It looks like an interesting repair project, any comments on this radio??
>
> WA1WLA

I just got the radio today, it looks OK and very clean.
I made the mistake to atempt repairs before a GOOD test.
The reason the seller let it go was "no transmmit" but when I hooked it up
it was transmiting
I opened it up and I was surprized to see that YAESU uses a corrosive
material as glue to hold down parts.
I removed this material from three places, one of them in the driver
transistor.
This material, whatever it is,  becomes intermitantly conductive and in some
cases i have seen in Mitchubishi older equipment, it etches the cooper
trace.
If you have a YAESU radio take a look, if you see a brown material under a
capacitor or holding down wires, take small screwdriver and scrape it away
using booth hands, one to direct the screwdriver and the other to apply
force, the material  is britle and brakes very easy.
After you remove it clean the area with alcohol.

GL, de WA1WLA Constantine

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