Did I bang on it ??!!! Of course!! Isn't that the very first diagnostic test for a piece of electronics????
Chuck WB2EDV ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nate Duehr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 7:08 AM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Whiskers > On 2/21/07, Chuck Kelsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Running the adjustment through it's range did nothing other than to >> confirm >> that it's tuning had no effect. The whiskers had shorted to the outside >> of >> the coil in several places. >> >> Chuck >> >WB2EDV > > I have heard stories of folks successfully utilizing regular > percussive maintenance (timeframe of a year or more) on persistently > annoying wisker growing castings. Did you bang on it? :-) > > Sounds dumb, but if you break 'em all -- you then have at least a > number of months where you can go find another receiver made out of > the different colored metal in the casting, tune it up, and just do an > on-site swap later... to get the offending casting out of the > picture... then you can try the clear spray paint trick and set the > thing on a shelf as a spare receiver... > > Nate WY0X >
