Good point, Paul. That's what I do. I haven't had the time to
rebuild the PTO in my Corsair I (Its a backup for my Paragon, anyway)
so before each operating session, I just run the PTO up and down the
range a couple of times to loosen up the grease. It works. Still,
I plan to clean out and regrease the PTO "soon". I tried spraying
lithium grease into it, but the old grease definitely needs to be
cleaned out to do a proper job.
By the way, my Scout PTO has a couple of jumpy spots. Anyone ever open
up one of these PTO's?
73, Bob WB2VUF
Paul Plasters wrote:
>
> After reading several coments where turning the knob from end to end, I came
> up with a question! What if once a month or so we turned the knob from end to
> end, would it help keep the lube distributed more evenly, and prolong life of
> the PTO?
> What do you think?
> I know from a ball bearing course I attended years ago, that a ball bearing
> can go bad sitting on a shelf. They need to be rotated every so often for
> maximum life. The man giving the talk that day, said even car wheel bearings
> can and will go bad if left sitting in one place too long. Just a thought,
> 73 Paul K9PEP
>
> At 11:39 PM 1/6/99 EST, AD4YH@aol.com wrote:
> >
> >Hello there Bob & everyone...
> >
> >I have an OMNI D that also seemed to have the warble soon
> >after doen a complete rebuild of the PTO. I also notice that
> >running the PTO to both ends of the travel definitely helps.
> >
> >I looked at mine pretty carefilly when I had it apart. If I end up
> >taking it apart again. I will look for the scoring on the shaft again.
> >(I think I remember that TEN TEC supplied me a new shaft in the
> >kit, but that doesn't fix the scorin in the raceway.
> >
> >The other thing some folks do when they re-build these things
> >is to use silicone grease instead of the "red" stuff. This seems
> >to last longer and do a better job. It's not on mine tho...
> >
> >ZUT de AD4YH /UP
> >
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