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Re: And the winner is my "new" 7A13! Was: 7K series - Conceptual question - What's the 3rd most useful plugin


 

How about changing the subject to reflect whatever it is you are discussing if it is no longer the 7A13.
Dennis Tillman W7PF

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of tom
jobe
Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2018 5:34 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [TekScopes] And the winner is my "new" 7A13! Was: 7K series -
Conceptual question - What's the 3rd most useful plugin

Hi Jim,
Thank you for your summary of the voltage selector / fuse block
construction, I read your summary the first time you posted it and was
thinking some photos might be coming to fully explain it to us.
Do you think the parts would still be usable if you forced the pins out of
the block with a tool like you describe?
Thanks again for doing this investigation for us all!
tom jobe...

On 10/6/2018 5:17 PM, Jim Olson wrote:
I'm resending this as I haven't received a response so not sure it got
where it was intended.

Jim O

On October 2, 2018 at 12:23 AM Jim Olson <v_12eng@...
mailto:v_12eng@... > wrote:


George, Tom, and all,
I cut the thing apart so I know what it looks like inside the
socket bore and also the config of the socket. It is as George says it has
a three tab annular ring in a groove about three fourths of the way up
from the opening. The socket bore has a shoulder, (ridge) with square
edges both sides that the ring snaps over, the ring is split so its
springy. there is a fixed shoulder built into the socket at the wire crimp
area to rest against the ridge to stop it from going out the other end of
the block. The three tabs on the front side have a small rolled ridge
tapered front and rear to allow it to slide over the ridge inside and then
expand around the ridge to locate it in the block. tried the extractor
over the socket after it is out and there is no way to use a tubular tool
to extract it it will not slide over the tab ridge. I believe the tool
used is a tube to center the socket and then it has a pin inside used to
drive out the socket the tabs are designed to compress as it is forced out
they have a longer taper on the back ridge side than the front insert
side.
The forcing pin should be double sized a smaller guide pin to fit
inside the socket with a ridge at the larger dia to set against the socket
and force it out almost lightly tapped on the push pin to snap it over the
inside ridge some lube used maybe to assist?

Jim O

> > On September 30, 2018 at 2:47 PM "george edmonds via
Groups.Io" <G6HIG@... mailto:G6HIG@...
mailto:G6HIG@... mailto:G6HIG@... > wrote:

Hi All
I have now removed one of the sockets, they are not as
anticipated, the locking arrangement used is a floating annular ring with
three "ears". I suspect that the inside bore of the removal tool requires
a short lead in to allow the "ears" to enter the bore of the removal tool.
73 George G6HIG.


On Sunday, September 30, 2018 8:22 PM, tom jobe
<tomjobe@... mailto:tomjobe@... mailto:tomjobe@...
mailto:tomjobe@... > wrote:


Between yesterday and today I tried making an assortment of
tools that
might be able to remove the pins from the black plastic block
on a 465
that serves as the voltage range selector and fuse block.
In the end, I failed to remove a single pin, and here is the
story.
(This will be explained in inches, using common drill sizes
available
in the mostly non-metric world I live in)
I machined the tools from brass bar stock and tried various
inside and
outside dimensions on them.
The outside diameter of the tools could not exceed about
0.126" inches
where they fit into the plastic block on the back of the
scope, and the
inside diameter had to be about 0.102" inches or larger to
fit over the
pins. The next largest drill in the number drills I have is
0.104"
inches and that size hole will clear the pin's outside
diameter coming
in from the back of the scope very nicely.
A tool with these dimensions will go in about 0.450" inches,
and it is
not making hard contact with any surface except the bottom of
the recess
in the black block around the pin. From the front side of the
plastic
block you can slightly move the pin your tool is on, and
there is
clearly no hard connection between the tool and the pin.
This made me wonder if the bottom of the recess in the
plastic block was
a flat surface, so I filed a 'chisel' end on the tool so only
the point
of the chisel end would touch the bottom in any one place.
You can then
spin the tool around and feel that the bottom of the 0.126+
recess is
quite flat.
When you push any of the tools I made into the bottom of the
recess in
the plastic block, they never push hard against any surface
of the pin,
and the pin can be slight moved around in a very loose way
from the
front side where the wires come into the plastic block.
One person reported being able to take these pins out with a
tool they
have, perhaps they meant they could do that on some other
kind of
similar pin?
Another issue after one figures out how to remove these pins,
is that
some rows of pins are three pins ganged together on the back
side, so
you would need three tools for those two rows of three pins
each.
tom jobe...
PS the larger outside diameter on these pins where the wires
come in on
the front side of the block is about 0.121" inches as best i
could
measure in a crowded area.






On 9/28/2018 4:37 PM, tom jobe wrote:
> > I have been following this discussion, and today took a
4xx scope

> > > apart to study what all of you are talking about.
A Google search shows that the tools to remove these
kinds of contacts
come in many-many sizes and it seems the one closest in
size to
George's older tool has a 2.7mm hole instead of George's
2.5mm hole.
This is addition to any dimensional problems the newer
tools have. If
the hole in the tool is too large and does not squeeze
the spring
contact in far enough to release the contact from the
hole, that could
possibly be Jim's problem?
The holes in the black plastic connector block appear to
be very close
to 0.125" (1/8th of an inch) which probably will work
with the nominal
3.2mm outside diameter the tools are listed as having.
Maybe I will make some test parts on the lathe tomorrow
to see what it
takes to release those contacts.
tom jobe...
>

> > > > On 9/28/2018 11:21 AM, george edmonds via Groups.Io
wrote:
> > > > > > Hi Jim
> > > > I have a scrap 4XX scope and have tried to
remove the sockets with
the extraction tool that I have, it was a simple
matter to do so.
Be aware that most of the extraction tools that
originate in China
are dimensionally poor, at best.
The tool that I have has a spring loaded plunger
which you press and
the socket just popped out,
The extractor tube dimensions are OD 3.2mm and the
ID is 2.5mm ,
sorry as I have had this tool some 45 years I
cannot give you any
idea of the manufacturer as it is unmarked.
73 George G6HIG
> >

> > > > >>
> > >> On Friday, September 28, 2018 5:24 PM, Jim Olson
>> <v_12eng@... mailto:v_12eng@...
mailto:v_12eng@... mailto:v_12eng@... > wrote:
>>
>> Fabio,
>> Sorry I was referring to the 4xx series of scopes and the
black main
>> power connector on the back for the fuse and voltage
selector jumper.
>> I need to remove the connectors from the connector block
there is a
>> tek tool for this but can't find one so bought a pin and
socket
>> extractor set as it has the right size for the sockets. It
will slide
>> in and feels like it compresses the lock tabs but the
socket won't
>> release and slide out. So I wanted to put it to some of
the more
>> experienced folks here so anyone know this feel free to
jump in I
>> really don't want to cut off the primary wires for the
transformer as
>> the sockets are crimped and necessary and most likely hard
to find.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>> On September 28, 2018 at 6:44 AM Fabio Trevisan
>>> <fabio.tr3visan@... mailto:fabio.tr3visan@...
mailto:fabio.tr3visan@... mailto:fabio.tr3visan@...
mailto:fabio.tr3visan@... mailto:fabio.tr3visan@...
mailto:fabio.tr3visan@... mailto:fabio.tr3visan@... > wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Hello Jim,
>>> I`m not quite sure abut what equipment you're talking
here?
>>> I saw a post from you about this subject some days ago
and,
>>> although I don't remember exactly about what equipment it
was, I`m
>>> confident that if it was about a model that I`m familiar
with, it
>>> would have grabbed my attention (and maybe I would have
even picked
>>> a try to answer you).
>>> Nevertheless... If you let me know the model, I can
consult the
>>> manuals / pictures and give it my shot...
>>> If it's an equipment I never had (and I only had a 464
and now
>>> this 7623A), my guess will be as good as anyone's but I
may be in a
>>> good day.
>>> Rgrds,
>>> Fabio
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 12:19 AM, Jim Olson wrote:
>>>
>>> >
>>>
>>> > > Fabio,
>>>> A side question here I need to remove the sockets from
the
>>>> main power
>>>> connector, (fuse block), so got some tubular connector
>>>> removal tools but when
>>>> I slide it down the socket It feels like it pushes in
the
>>>> release tabs and
>>>> stops but the socket won't pull out.
>>>> So what kind of tool do I need here to get it to
release?
>>>> It's not working
>>>> like I am used to with normal connectors!
>>>>
>>>> Jim
>>>>
>>>> >
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> >

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