[TenTec] 253 autotuner stepper motor

[k4mt1950 at charter.net]

that call shows up as a John Mullins so maybe his call has been
changed
Gary K4MT

	-----------------------------------------From: "Ron Notarius W3WN via
TenTec" 
To: tentec at contesting.com
Cc: "Ron Notarius W3WN"
Sent: Monday January 6 2020 12:48:05PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] 253 autotuner stepper motor

 Drop Fred N8YX a note (sorry, I don't have his direct email handy).
He's worked on a few of these, he may know of another source.

 73

 -----Original Message-----
 From: k4mt1950 
 To: 'Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment' 
 Sent: Mon, Jan 6, 2020 12:43 pm
 Subject: Re: [TenTec] 253 autotuner stepper motor

 Thanks. I will keep an eye out but tentec only made 400 of them and I
 am sure many of those are in a scrap yard somewhere.
 The company I found will make me one but they have min order of 180
 and 30 shipping. Or I can buy 5 for $51 each and shipping will be
 around $300.
 May have to part the old girl out. I am going to change the motor
 drive IC as I have 15 of them in tubes. I have ordered a 24 narrow
 socket so I will only have to solder once. I have heard of failures
of
 the driver chips so maybe I will get lucky. 
 Thanks
 Gary K4MT

 -----------------------------------------From: "Byron Cordes via
 TenTec" 
 To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment"
 Cc: "Byron Cordes"
 Sent: Monday January 6 2020 12:28:10PM
 Subject: Re: [TenTec] 253 autotuner stepper motor

 I never seen a parts auto tuner but that might be the way. Seen those
 tuners on qth and eBay for around $300 . 73s Byron AC9PA 

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 > On Jan 6, 2020, at 10:49 AM, Gary Hendricks wrote:
 > 
 > If any cares but me, I have found a source for these motors.
 They are
 > available at Servo2Go. I was given a quote of 51 dollars each but
 min
 > order of 5. Had another quote of $114 and I am checking to see if
 that
 > has min order. Both quotes from same company, different people.
 > Gary K4MT
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