Garey Barrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterence to the drakelist gang ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dick -
Probably not, short of a junker unit.
Best advice is to keep them clean, NO oil or grease, don't slam them against the stops and they'll probably outlast us!
73, Garey - K4OAH Atlanta
Drake C-Line Service Manual <http://hr99.home.mindspring.com/R-4C_Servicez/>
Dick Harms PA2DW wrote:
Now of course an interesting question is, is there a source for metal gears if ever our "nylons" get broken?
73, Dick/PA2DW
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- *Van:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Eric Webner *Verzonden:* zondag 13 februari 2005 18:32 *Aan:* [email protected] *Onderwerp:* Re: [drakelist] R-4C gears nylon or metal?
Would you believe DeWalt used to use nylon gears in the
transmission of their cordless drills? That made for a lot of
repair bills. Now, they use metal gears, and they last much much
longer.
Eric
*/Lee Bahr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote:
"Lee Bahr" made an utterence to the drakelist gang ---------------------------------------------------------------------- What can wipe out the plastic gearing besides oiling and lubricating them is BANGING THE GEARS ON THEIR END STOPS! I'm talking about running the dial to the end of their travel rotation quickly while tuning across the band. You can do this all day long with metal geared radios but not those with plastic gears.
I bought a new C-line when they first came out and the radios had plastic gearing. (I had been using a metal geared TR-4 up until this point in time and had been used to running and banging the dial up to it's end points while scanning the band.). I found out very quickly you could not do this with a radio with plastic gears. Within two months of purchase Drake had sent me 3 new gear! ed PTOs as replacements. (The banging warped the gearing so they did not rotate smoothly and freely as when new). Once I changed my ways and did not bang against the end stops, my problems with plastic gears went away.
Lee, w0vt
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