A friend of mine sprayed the PTO in his OMNI C with
WD40. I worked great for awhile and then quit
altogether. When he brought it to me I took it apart
and found it was full of fuzzy green stuff that
apparently came from a reaction between the WD40 and
the brass parts. Another friend who is in the Canadian
Navy says they have been told not to use WD40 on
anything brass.
Dave, VE1ADH
--- Gary Hoffman <ghoffman@spacetech.com> wrote: >
Rob,
>
> I'll be very anxious to know how your PTO lube job
> works out. I'd like a
> process that would allow me to avoid a disassembly
> and rebuild.... just
> flush out the old stuff and spray in the new would
> be idea. My PTO is only
> stiff...I don't think it has enough use on it to
> have parts wear.
>
> 73 de Gary, AA2IZ
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rob Atkinson, K5UJ" <k5uj@hotmail.com>
> To: <tentec@contesting.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 12:15 PM
> Subject: [TenTec] Corsair II f.p. meter continued +
> other fixes
>
>
> > I lifted the top cover on my CII and eyeballed the
> meter area (always do
> the
> > easy stuff first). There's a small pc board
> mounted on the back of the
> > meter switch to make it easy to plug wiring pairs
> into the switch. A
> copper
> > foil run on this had lifted off and opened. I'm
> guessing it came off and
> > got too close to another contact point. when I
> moved the wafer switch
> over
> > to Ic there was an arc that tripped the p.s. and
> opened the run. I have
> to
> > take out the switch and put in a small copper
> phone wire from a twisted
> pair
> > to complete the open circuit. the switch removal
> doesn't look like much
> > fun.
> >
> > While I have it out, I'm going to extend the
> speaker lead so the bottom
> > cover can be removed in the future without having
> to unsolder the speaker.
> >
> > My CII also has the dreaded random dead rx due to
> (I assume) dirty TR
> relay
> > contacts. I'll clean those (I hope it's easy to
> get to).
> >
> > The PTO still has a warble on cw, even though TT
> rebuilt it last winter.
> > I'm going to take out the PTO, remove the
> (in)famous red gunk and try
> > lubricating it with teflon cream normally used on
> guns. This was a
> friend's
> > idea and is supposed to be real slick stuff. I'll
> let everyone know how
> it
> > works out.
> >
> > any comments?
> >
> > Rob Atkinson
> > K5UJ
> > k5uj@hotmail.com
> >
> >
>
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