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Philco 118 tuning gang short at max capacitance
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This only happens when the gang totally closes. It does not appear to be due to bent plates but rather the rotor going too far and touching the stator.

I have made a fix by putting a loop of black lacing string, between the middle two plates of each rotor section. This simply goes around the bar that holds the plates together.

In practice it works but I wonder if anyone else has come across this or if there were originally (now missing) some sort of stops that prevented this from happening?

thanks Gary


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Philco 118 tuning gang short at max capacitance - by Guest - 06-20-2008, 03:36 AM
Shoriting tuning cap - by AI2V - 06-20-2008, 09:59 AM
[No subject] - by Guest - 06-21-2008, 01:33 PM
[No subject] - by AI2V - 06-22-2008, 10:38 PM
[No subject] - by Guest - 06-23-2008, 04:36 AM
[No subject] - by etech - 06-23-2008, 12:49 PM
[No subject] - by gary rabbitt - 06-23-2008, 06:47 PM
[No subject] - by Guest - 07-07-2008, 12:45 PM



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