[TenTec] Newly acquired Delta 580

[Carlos]

Hi Al,

Would you consider uploading your model to Thingiverse or Printables ?
   Someone uploaded a dial indicator for the 229

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4794578


About your knobs... you might have to fabricate them, using the brass
"core" from a cheap Asian knob and then slide/glue a knob you print.
I guess 3D printing technology will get better with time, so it will
be possible to build a really good replica soon.

73,
Carlos VK1EA


On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 8:55 AM Al <radioal at sccoast.net> wrote:
>
> Hi-
>
> I have been using an Omni D for a few years now, but it has been so rock solid that I have just been reading the list up to now.
>
> I just acquired a Delta 580 at a recent hamfest.  Despite the previous owner stating that the “VFO has been cleaned and lubed”, I could tell that the PTO needed a rebuild because the outer shaft wouldn’t even turn with the inner one.  I bought it anyway because the price was right.
>
> Opened it up to find that the back cover of the PTO (the little plastic part that holds the tension spring) was broken into 4 pieces, no doubt from someone trying to compress the spring using only the 2 bolts!
>
> I was able to 3d print a replacement part and after much cleaning and reassembly, my PTO is super smooth and fully functional.  In fact I now realize just how gummed up the one on my Omni is. Things like that seem to creep up on you.
>
> I thought I would post this in case anyone else had a PTO equipped TenTec that was sidelined with a similar broken cover.  I would be happy to share my CAD files or even print another one if it got more of these great old rigs back on the air.
>
> Also, If anyone has any spare knobs for this rig, I would be quite interested in them.  My tuning knobs, band switch and selectivity knobs are a motley mismatched set.  Functional, but ugly.
>
> 73
>
> Al KD4TMW
> Pawley’s Island, SC
>
> Sent from Mail for Windows
>
> _______________________________________________
> TenTec mailing list
> TenTec at contesting.com
> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/tentec