Heath knobs

[LEE BAHR]

Glen:

Do you plan to sell these knobs?

Lee, w0vt


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glen Zook" <gzook at YAHOO.COM>
To: <BOATANCHORS at LISTS.TEMPE.GOV>
Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 8:50 PM
Subject: Heath knobs


>I am in the process of making new molds for the replacement knobs that I 
>make for the older Heath equipment and I "discovered" something that I 
>hadn't realized before.  In some of the DX-100 transmitters the VFO knob is 
>weighted unlike the other large knobs which makes the tuning a little bit 
>"smoother".  I hadn't had to remove the VFO knob from my present DX-100 so 
>I hadn't noticed the weight difference.  But, since the DX-100 was the 
>easiest item to remove the knobs for making new molds I removed them to 
>use.
>
> I did check both of my VF-1 VFOs (one early version and one late version - 
> the difference is in the front panel layout) and both of them have the 
> "regular" (unweighted) knobs.  I don't remember if my original DX-100 
> (that I got used in 1960 and gave away in the mid 1970s) had a weighted 
> knob or not.
>
> I thought that I knew a lot about the DX-100 series but the weighted VFO 
> knob is definitely a "new one" on me!
>
> Glen, K9STH
>
> Website:  http://k9sth.com
>
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