A man after my own heart!! :-)
Charlie, K4OTV
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From: Topband [mailto:topband-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Herb
Schoenbohm
Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2013 2:31 PM
To: topband@contesting.com
Subject: Re: Topband: Nye Viking MB-V-A
I had a similar problem with the flat loading capacitors plates burning
a hole and failing on my Drake MN-2000 ATU and found some very nice low
profile 200pf 10KV mica transmitting capacitors from Bulgaria on eBay
for $6.00 each. There seems to be a good supply from the vendor as they
are currently listed as:
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2 200 pF 10kV LOT OF 2 HIGH VOLTAGE CERAMIC DOORKNOB CAPACITORS KVI-3
(???-3)
Shipping took only a week and the items fit inside the tuner easily. I
used some tinned solder wick to make the connections to the switch as I
did not have any tinned braid available.
Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ.
On 11/3/2013 2:16 PM, Charlie Young wrote:
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> I have an MB-V and an MB-IV.
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> The MB-IV experienced a fixed capacitor failure. There is a stacked
capacitor bank that was fabricated by Nye
> using insulating sheet separated by metal plates. One of the insulator
sheets broke down.
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> I repaired it myself by unbolting the stack, cleaning up the affected
capacitor plates, and replacing the insulator with a piece of teflon sheet
that one of my friends happened to have.
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> So far so good on the repair, but I don't need to use the tuners much
these days.
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> 73 Charlie N8RR
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>> Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 13:33:10 -0400
>> From: herbs@vitelcom.net
>> To: topband@contesting.com
>> Subject: Re: Topband: Nye Viking MB-V-A
>>
>> What is the model number....there is not to much that can go wrong with
>> them. You might check at the switches and coil for any bad contacts
>> which normally if not burned can be repaired with a pencil eraser or
>> some very light emery cloth.
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>> Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ
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>> On 11/3/2013 11:07 AM, michael kincaid wrote:
>>> Got my Inverted L fixed now the tuner has a problem. Anyone around I
that
>>> works on these tuners?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>> W7fkf@fast.net
>>>
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