[TowerTalk] Wilson WR-1000 gears

[c penna]

Don,
You might consider what I recently did about worn gears in my 25 year old
Emoto rotator and that was simply to get a gear cut. I found a small gear
cutting firm and sent them the worn one. If I  ever get any more gears to
change thats the way I'm going, however its nice if you can get them off the
shelf.
73 Clive GM3POI
-----Original Message-----
From: Don Moman <ve6jy@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca>
To: towertalk@contesting.com <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: 21 August 2000 05:36
Subject: [TowerTalk] Wilson WR-1000 gears


>
>After turning a 3 el 40m yagi for a few years, the Wilson WR-1000 rotor
>was taken down today, and opened up. It had been failing to hold it in
>position for a year or so and lately it was completely free wheeling.  A
>homebrew worm drive rotor has been built and will take its place but the
>Wilson was a nice rotor and I'd like to get it working again. The brake
>and ring gear are reasonably OK, the drive gears are not.  My question,
>before I put too much research into it is: are the spur gears used in the
>power train "standard"? They look like a 3/16 face spur gear but in my
>Browning catalogue, these have a 32 pitch, while the ones in the Wilson
>look like an 8 or a 10 pitch - but are only listed available in a 1" face
>or bigger according to the catalogue....
>
>Anybody been there, done that and ???
>
>73 Don
>
>VE6JY  Don Moman               email: ve6jy@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
>Box 127 Lamont, Alberta        email forwarding: ve6jy@rac.ca
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