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Re: [TenTec] Orion 565 tuning encoder

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion 565 tuning encoder
From: "Bob McGraw - K4TAX" <RMcGraw@Blomand.net>
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Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 21:01:04 -0500
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Nope didn't think about it at the time. And too, just in case I destroyed it, I didn't want any evidence of my fauxpaux to exist.

It is basically, on the inside, a segmented potentiometer. So the fault is the wiper to element contact where the pads get dirty, just like any old pot. No new rocket science here. As one fellow suggested, exercising it might just fix it for a while. And of course one could squirt some of their favorite contact cleaner, {you know the stuff that dissolves plastic when it's not supposed to do so}, in there and do some good for a short time as well.

73
Bob, K4TAX






----- Original Message ----- From: "K8JHR" <jrichards@k8jhr.com>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2014 7:37 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion 565 tuning encoder


Did you take any photos of the encoder's innards?


-------------------- K8JHR ----------------



On 6/21/2014 6:41 PM, Bob McGraw - K4TAX wrote:

I actually opened the original one, cleaned it, put it back together

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