Re: [TenTec] Paragon Problem gets very odd

["Bob McGraw - K4TAX" <RMcGraw@Blomand.net>]

Remember, I said apply a SMALL amount of contact cleaner.  I didn't say 
drown the sucker as many folks are prone to do.
73
Bob, K4TAX


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richards" <jruing@ameritech.net>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2012 12:06 AM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Paragon Problem gets very odd


> Cool.   That's the ticket.  (Although I don't recall them costing
> over $20 !)   I will Google around and see what comes up not that you
> confirm their usefulness.
>
> Regarding exercising pots...  I learned long ago from my collection of
> old AM radios, that I can usually avoid spraying loads of contact
> cleaner in the controls if I just exercise them all the way up-and-down
> several times, and then I don't get that awful "scrauntch" sound when I
> turn them on.  You know the sound.  So I just rotate the posts several
> times through their entire course before I plug them in, and that
> usually cures it.  Only occasionally do I need to use any contact
> spritz, which I prefer not to use if possible.   No reason other than
> the KISS method.
>
> Thanks for the uptake on burnishing tools.
>
> ----------------  K87JHR  ----------------------------------
>
>
> On 7/14/2012 11:42 PM, Randy Moore wrote:
>
> > As a broadcast engineer I have to work on a large variety of equipment so 
> > I
> > still carry a burnishing tool in my tool kit.  Cooper tools sells one 
> > also.
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