[Heathkit] Love Affair with old HW 100 Tube Xcvr. {01}

[Jordan Arndt]

The only thing to watch out for is too much tension on the belts which will wear on the capacitor bearings , and eventually cause the caps to need replacement... 73 de Jordan...

ejforwood Jerold Forwood wrote:

> My local "Ace Hardware" Has a cabinet with O-Rings of every diameter and thickness you could imagine.  Hey! it ain't rocket science.  Hardware parts come from hardware stores, at least good ones. Not WalMart.
> 73's,
> Jerry, K0EJF
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Tracy
> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 5:12 AM
> To: HEATH at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV
> Subject: Re: [Heathkit] Love Affair with old HW 100 Tube Xcvr. {01}
>
> The quickest replacement for the drive belts I have found is your local
> auto parts store. Take your old drive belt in and tell them you need a
> replacenment O-Ring and have them match it. Beware if you go to some od the
> dept. store type autoparts ie. adapt, autozone they will tell you they have
> to have make and model or they cant match it BOOK IDIOTS so just tell the
> it is a water pump seal off some 1920 forien job and then they can just
> matcth it up. Dont try to tell them it belongs tro a radio they dont stock
> radio parts!
>
> Good Luck '73
>
> Tracy  N1RKT
>
> At 09:49 PM 4/21/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> >   Gentlemen,
> >
> >I have an old Heathkit HW100 tube transceiver which I  would certainly like
> >   that was my first rig.
> >About ten years ago I left it in working condition in  the care of a "friend"
> >  He promised to  have stored it in his vault
> >  I was shocked  to have found that it was being used
> >  The tuning mechanism has been
> >   now
> >  I have other  modern rigs but I still want to restore that old tube
> >    I await your responses, suggestions,
> >  Please don't tell me to throw it  away(HI)   Regards, Winston
> >
> >
>
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