Ray, have you tried just running it up and down the scale a few times? That
might loosen it up a bit.
73 Paul
At 09:50 AM 1/21/99 -0600, Roy Koeppe wrote:
>
>Gosh,
>
>Hadn't heard of that ever before. Other than feeding in a drop of
>penetrating oil at the shaft bearing, I just don't know. Perhaps others have
>had a look inside that mechanism?
>
>Good luck... 73, Roy K6XK/0
>-----Original Message-----
>From: RLVZ@aol.com <<RLVZ@aol.com>
>To: royanjoy@ncn.net <<royanjoy@ncn.net>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
>Date: Wednesday, January 20, 1999 10:04 PM
>Subject: Re: [TenTec] OMNI-6 Tuning Knob Mod.
>
>
>>Hi Roy,
>>I appreciated your tuning knob mod. I have a similiar but different
>problem.
>>My tuning is also very stiff. But its not the drag but the tuning unit
>thats
>>stiff. (I can take the entire tuning knob off the shaft and the shaft
>turns
>>very hard. Its a VI PLUS which I recently bought used. I spoke with
>Ten-Tec
>>service and they said that some units come real stiff and no way to change
>it
>>but swap out the tuning unit. Have you any ideas for freeing up the tuning
>>unit? (WD-40!?). Thanks, Dick-K9OM
>>
>
>
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