All ideas on PTO maint. are always welcome. this topic comes up about once
every 12 months. I owned a Corsair II and experienced the jerking of the
pto on cw (beat note jumping around) but it wasn't so noticeable on ssb. I
took the cover off and looked at the pto to do a rebuild and immediately
flashed back to an attempt years earlier on a curburator rebuild where I had
more parts left at the end than I had at the beginning. I put the cover
back on and sent it to Ten Tec. Back it came with the red gunk and no
change in the pto herky jerky behavior on cw. A friend advised lubing it
with teflon gun grease, but at that point I decided I had a 17 or 18 year
old rig on the skids, and the time had come to stick with shaft encoders and
microprocessors. As my part in helping the next generation along, I
practically gave it away to a new ham who was short on cash and wanting to
set up a HF station. After all the times this topic has come up mentioning
all these improved lubricants, I do not understand why Ten Tec continues to
use the red junk that turns into tar. Maybe they bought 5 tons of it at
some point in the past.
rob / k5uj
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