[TowerTalk] M2 rotor question

[Gregg Seidl]

Do you know how to get the bolt back up?

  Gregg
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Tibbals" <tibbalsw at yahoo.com>
To: "Tower and HF antenna construction topics." <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 6:48 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] M2 rotor question


> Gregg.
>
> It is not uncommon for the 1/4" bolt on top of the rotor to become loose. 
> since this bolt suspends the main drive gear that gear starts to drop. it 
> will slowly move against the Limit Switches thus they engage and disengage 
> erratically. quite common problem with mine, I did replace the top clamp 
> with one from K7LXC andhave had no issues since
>
> Bill, K4XT
>
> --- On Sun, 1/17/10, Gregg Seidl <k9kl at centurytel.net> wrote:
>
> From: Gregg Seidl <k9kl at centurytel.net>
> Subject: [TowerTalk] M2 rotor question
> To: TowerTalk at contesting.com
> Date: Sunday, January 17, 2010, 3:47 PM
>
> I have a DC M2 Orion rotor that is giving me some trouble. It will only 
> turn from 108 to 360 degrees plus a little back thru about 13 degrees. I 
> feel like it is against a control box limit. How can you clear it?
>
> Gregg K9KL
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