How.
Old Indian trick: Take felts out and turn former outer faces inward so they
now touch each other. This puts fresh felt surfaces against the knob and
dial skirt.
Mike Hyder N4NT@bigfoot.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Graham <k5id@ipa.net>
To: tentec@contesting.com <tentec@contesting.com>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Monday, April 13, 1998 6:22 AM
Subject: [TenTec] PTO tunes itself
>
>Rich and Teckies,
>
>when the tuning knob keeps tuning on its own....
>
>Those green felt washers are not put behind the tuning knob for
>Christmas decorations! There needs to be enough friction between the
>knob and the panel to prevent this motion. (when the knob is really
>freewheeling, the spring in the pto mechanism is sufficient tl allow the
>knob to keep going a bit in one direction....) Just loosen the knob and
>move it back a bit, against the felt. No spinning of the knobs on these
>radios.
>
>Regards, Ken K5ID
>
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