On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Rick Brashear wrote:
Great story, Don! I have received several great suggestions and plan on
going through them all until I find one to get that rascal out of there.
From having faced this exact problem during the re-build of my R-388,
the only tidbit I have to offer (in the midst of all this utterly terrific
info and 'hints & kinks'!!) is that, to heat the KC dial hub, I used one
of those Weller small hand-held heat guns (not the big 1500 watt jobs) and
directed the hot air onto the hub and shaft using the short extension pipe
that came with the gun - in five minutes of judicious heating, the locking
compound loosened and the set-screw was free.
For what it's worth - Howard Mills also provides replacement KC dials
for these radios... he told me that sometimes cutting or melting the dial
is inevitable.
...I was able it remove it, threads intact.
That was several years ago, and I have used the receiver almost daily
ever since.
Don k4kyv
Cheers
John
KB6SCO
DM09fg
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