I travel for work for months at a time. Bringing projects with me saves my sanity!
Make sure to have a plastic bin handy to catch the tiny balls in the vernier as you disassemble and clean. They can be difficult to find in the carpet…ask me how I know.
You might find another way other than chucking it up in a lathe if it’s bent…it was what I had access to at work and it was easy to tweak and measure till it was pretty close. ?Who knows, yours might be a-ok.
I will be interested to hear what you find and if you get it sorted out!
On Sunday, March 20, 2022, 3:18 PM, Joel Weder <jweder@...> wrote:
Hi Jon,
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Well I must commend you on your determination, working on that radio in a hotel room! Lucky that you had access to a lathe. I don't know anyone who has one, but perhaps I can find a way to manage it. I'll hopefully have some time tonight and tomorrow night to disassemble the gear mechanism. I'll update the group with my results.
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As a backup plan I'll scavenge the mechanism from my FV-301. It's just a show-piece now anyway. Can't imagine anyone needing to work split today with one of these old beasts. (wanting to - that's another matter!)
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