If you hit it hard enough, it would have fixed itself without taking it apart. Nate knows how hard you have to smack it to break the whiskers off, don't you Nate? <grin>
set radio on floor (concrete), set radio on heatsink (vertical), kick radio with left (or right) foot (hard), radio will become horizontal (mostly) radio is now fixed of whiskers problem, but may now suffer other damage (shit) pry bent covers from radio set (screwdriver) hammer covers back into some semblance of straightness (large hammer -thick metal) take radio to a 'non-golden-screwdriver' tech for real servicing (out some money) radio now works better than ever (at least better than I remember) Yea!!! kuggie Chuck Kelsey wrote: > 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
