[TenTec] Century 21 VFO dial mechanism help

[david feldman]

Thanks Rick for the quick reply.

I looked at the info there, and it helps, but I think what I'm struggling 
with is the function of the spring-loaded metal tab and it's gear - it 
presumably (when engaged to the main VFO shaft gear) prevents the VFO shaft 
from turning (which is why I thought I had a VFO problem in the first 
place), and I'd imagine it's function is to help adjust the alignment of the 
VFO frequency with the indicating dial, but I don't see any way to control 
the gears from the front panel (on some other rigs of the era, you'd have 
some kind of button or knob that would temporarily decouple movement of the 
tuning knob from movement of the indicator dial, allowing for adjustment.) I 
think my problem is that I can't see how from outside the rig you'd be able 
to control position of the spring-loaded tab, so it isn't clear how to 
position the related parts during reassembly. Perhaps there is a piece 
missing (the rig wasn't really complete when I received it - I patched 12V 
into the internal power bus (power supply parts missing) and found it is 
able to receive, so I'm encouraged to continue forward with it.

Very tks,

73 Dave WB0GAZ wb0gaz at hotmail.com

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>Here you go Dave:
>
>    http://www.io.com/~n5fc/c21_pto.htm
>
>73,
>
>Rick
>VE7TK
>
>Website:  http://www3.telus.net/ve7tk
>
>--------
>To: 	tentec at contesting.com
>Subject: 	[TenTec] Century 21 VFO dial mechanism help
>From: 	"david feldman"
>Date: 	Sat, 17 Feb 2007 19:42:32 -0700
>
>I'm working on bring a Century 21 carcass back to life and I'm a little
>[PARA]puzzled by the VFO dial mechanism - I thought the VFO was in need of
>[PARA]rebuild, but it appears instead that the gears were not properly
>positioned, [PARA]preventing the VFO from moving normally. Unfortunately 
>the
>Ten-Tec VFO [PARA]rebuild information I found doesn't elaborate on the
>proper assembly of the [PARA]VFO dial mechanism. If someone familiar with
>this would be able to assist by [PARA]e-mail, I'd be grateful for the
>help.[PARA][PARA]Very tks,[PARA][PARA]73 Dave WB0GAZ
>wb0gaz at hotmaill.com[PARA][PARA]_______________________________________

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