Re: Pin Removal WAS Re: [DRAKE-RADIO] AC-4 Cinch Jones Drive Pin Removal
If for some reason I cannot return the pin holding the cap onto a Jones connector, I just push some hook up wire through the cap and the connector hole and then bend over the outside edges. Looks a
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JAMES HANLON
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Drake L4 and the Harbach soft start mod...?
Hi, Question. What differences are there in the Drake L4 vs the L4B that may negate or change the installation of the ES4L-4B v1.0 (
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Scott KF4DDJ
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Re: Drake TH44C Communication Station (Barnet, Herts UK) needs a new home.
Dear Sir, I don't know when you last tried to post anything to another country, but I suspect that you have not, for a VERY long time. Anything over 2kg in weight gets VERY expensive. Especially if
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Stephen G7VFY <mister35mm@...>
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Re: Drake TH44C Communication Station (Barnet, Herts UK) needs a new home.
EBAY Global shipping opens every package to inspect, and then repackages it, poorly. I won¡¯t purchase anything on EBAY where the seller is using GPS. I have had too much damaged equipment. AND, it
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Clint VE3CMQ
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Re: TR-4C Volume / RF Gain Control
Well, I spoke a little soon about the condition of these potentiometers. ?I cleaned them with Deoxit Fader F5, pressurized can with nozzle following instructions, yesterday. ?I thought I¡¯d check
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Michael Smith
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Re: TR-4C Volume / RF Gain Control
I recently bought a used TR-4C AF/RF/SPST assembly for a spare. ?It was in good mechanical condition and cleaned up nicely, but the 500 kohm pot is noisy, and the 10 kohm pot measures a constant 1
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Michael Smith
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Re: Drake TH44C Communication Station (Barnet, Herts UK) needs a new home.
The price is highly dependent on the origin's options and which options are known to the seller. Steve Wedge, W1ES/4 Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. Sent with [Proton
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Steve Wedge, W1ES/4
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Re: Pin Removal WAS Re: [DRAKE-RADIO] AC-4 Cinch Jones Drive Pin Removal
Yeah, it took me a few cycles to figure that out. Those of us with manufacturing or field tech backgrounds were probably scratching our heads. It's all good. We all come from different origins. I have
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Steve Wedge, W1ES/4
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Re: Pin Removal WAS Re: [DRAKE-RADIO] AC-4 Cinch Jones Drive Pin Removal
P.S. I should have mentioned that there¡¯s little pressure from the cutter against the pin to ruin the cutters. The cutters are used to lift, not cut. The only pressure applied to the side of the pin
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Paul Christensen
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Re: Pin Removal WAS Re: [DRAKE-RADIO] AC-4 Cinch Jones Drive Pin Removal
I've used the same method often enough. Like so many other tech tricks that we think we are so clever for thinking up only to find out later that great minds think alike. 73 -Jim NU0C "Ed"
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Jim Shorney
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Re: Pin Removal WAS Re: [DRAKE-RADIO] AC-4 Cinch Jones Drive Pin Removal
Hi Paul, that¡¯s exactly the way I have removed the hood pin over the years. ?Tools already on hand. ED WA6WGS
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Ed
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Re: RF dummy load project
Yup, yup. -- Richard Knoppow Los Angeles WB6KBL SKCC 19998
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Richard Knoppow
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Re: Pin Removal WAS Re: [DRAKE-RADIO] AC-4 Cinch Jones Drive Pin Removal
I use an awl: tap the straight end with a small hammer in a vise so that the pinhead just comes up from the surface. Then use flush diagonal cutters under the pinhead and rotate the pin out. The
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Paul Christensen
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Re: RF dummy load project
Point well taken~! Mike, wb8vge ¡°The trouble with quotes on the Internet is that you never know if they are genuine¡± ¡ªAbraham Lincoln
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Mike Bryce
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Re: RF dummy load project
I am so gonna get in trouble for this..... See attached. 73 -Jim NU0C "mike bryce" <prosolar@...> wrote:
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Jim Shorney
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Pin Removal WAS Re: [DRAKE-RADIO] AC-4 Cinch Jones Drive Pin Removal
You *cannot remove pins from a Cinch Jones connector*, unless you destroy the plug. What he really meant to say, is how do you remove the retaining pin that holds the hood onto the back of the
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Jim W7RY <jimw7ry@...>
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#74898
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Re: RF dummy load project
Here is a link to the original article https://www.worldradiohistory.com/AUSTRALIA/Amateur-Radio/Amateur-Radio-AU-2007.pdf
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Mike Bryce
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Re: Drake TH44C Communication Station (Barnet, Herts UK) needs a new home.
Shipping is by ebay global shipping. Is that not visable? regards Stephen WaltersProfessional Celebrity Photographer / G7VFYwww.facebook.com/mister35mm Tel 07956-544202
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Stephen G7VFY <mister35mm@...>
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Re: Drake TH44C Communication Station (Barnet, Herts UK) needs a new home.
Shipping is by ebay global shipping. Is that not visable? regards Stephen WaltersProfessional Celebrity Photographer / G7VFYwww.facebook.com/mister35mm Tel 07956-544202
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Stephen G7VFY <mister35mm@...>
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Re: Drake TH44C Communication Station (Barnet, Herts UK) needs a new home.
"However, I'd offer some suggestions that may help sell it." Those are all excellent points. That's an unusual enough radio that someone might well bite on it if there was at least some indication of
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John K5MO
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