I have worked on radios of just about every make. The worst screws are on
Icom radios. There is usually at least one Phillips head stripped on any
radio that's been apart. Some day the rest of the world is going catch on to
a great Canadian invention, the Robertson (square) screw head.
Dave, VE1ADH
----- Original Message -----
From: "Randy Randall" <randallr@Healthall.com>
To: <TenTec@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 4:44 PM
Subject: [TenTec] (no subject)
> I know how to put self taping or self threading screws back in. I own and
use a torque scrwedriver. ( A job in my former life required me to use one
to prevent snaping off nylon screws. ) The trick of turning the screw in
reverse until the thread drops back into the original grove is not unknown
to me either. The small inexpensive MFJ (MFJ?!) 9420 uses PIM nuts on its
case. If MFJ can do it ( and they are known for cutting just about every
corner known to modern quality control. ), why not TenTec? If Icom,
Kenwood, Yeasu, my el'cheapo $59.00 no name throw a way VCR use machine
screws to hold the cabinet on among other things, so should TenTec. If
machine screws were not needed, you can bet they would not be used by
Yaecomwood and others.
>
> Randy KB8ASO
>
> p.s. Get rid of the gold trim. Makes the thing look like a $9.95 rent to
own stereo.
>
> >>>>What a disappointment to see TenTec using the same el'cheapo fasteners
> that they used on the Jupiter.
>
> >I have an old Omni C, a five year old Omni VI Plus >and an 18 month old
> >Pegasus. I have in the past had a Triton IV Digital >for five years and
the
> >great Argo 556 for about four years. On all these >radios I never
striped
> >one of the fasteners.
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