[Heath] AR-3 - one more thing...

[ChrisIwata]

My AR-1 had the same issue when I bought it.  Good luck finding the 
plastic dial, I don't think you'll ever get one.  They break easily:  
I'm betting almost all the AR-1s to AR-3s  that have seen any use have 
these missing

I made a pointer from spring steel wire.  You wind a few turns to make a 
coil to fit around the brass shaft as a compression fit, it expands due 
to the springiness of the steel.  Then bend the wire at right angle 
about 1/4 inch above the end of the coil so it will be flush with the 
cabinet panel .  Now you have a pointer that turns with the brass 
shaft.  Clip it to about the radius of the old plastic dial.  Paint the 
tip Red or some color that shows.

You don't need a set screw, just push the coil down until the pointer is 
just above the cabinet panel and properly aligned.  That set screw was 
the reason so many of the dials broke:  When you moved the chassis apart 
from the cabinet panel, the dial was history.

Chris, KL7DM



On 10/19/2018 10:34 AM, Kenneth G. Gordon wrote:
> Might anyone have the small bandspread dial that one must remove in order to take the
> cabinet off which they might sell?
>
> At least one of mine is missing.
>
> Ken W7EKB
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