[Ron Ramirez]

Very productive weekend on the ol' 42-761.

I was in a hardware store yesterday and I saw some of those tile spacers. But I had to buy a bag of 30 or so in order to get one or two, and I decided not to once I found the rubber washers.

I bought three, but as it turned out, I only needed one. As usual, I got busy and did the cutting I needed to do to the washer and installed it before I thought about taking pictures, so let me explain what I did:

The outer portion of the tuning shaft is bolted on to the chassis with two small bolts, and is easily removable. So I removed it and used its U-bracket to determine where I needed to cut four pieces out of the washer, so that the two U-brackets would meet at right angles, if you will. Or if you won't. Anyway, after I finished cutting, it looked sort of like this:

[Image: http://www.philcoradio.com/images/phorum...78111e.jpg]

The washers I bought were really a bit large (in diameter) for the job, but it was the only size I found in the store.

Once installed in the radio, here's what it looked like:

[Image: http://www.philcoradio.com/images/phorum...bc7efd.jpg]

[Image: http://www.philcoradio.com/images/phorum...6235e2.jpg]

Best news of all: Once installed, the tuning began to work. And it works fine, no backlash, no problems. The washer really should have been half again as thick, but two thicknesses would have been too much. It works well as is, so I'll leave it as is as long as it works.

More to come...