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

[ejforwood Jerold Forwood]

The same would be true of the ones from the auto parts store, or eBay, or wherever.  You also have to be sure to select ones that won't slip or your dials will constantly be moving and making it hard to return quickly to where it loaded last time.
I also noticed that people are selling sets of three.  My manual calls for only the two for the drive/preselector  variable caps.  It shows a dial cord and spring for the final load cap.  
73's,
Jerry, K0EJF


----- Original Message -----
From: Jordan Arndt
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 8:34 AM
To: ejforwood Jerold Forwood
Cc: HEATH at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV
Subject: Re: [Heathkit] Love Affair with old HW 100 Tube Xcvr. {01}

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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