From: "Dick Harms PA2DW" 
Subject: RE: [drakelist] R-4C gears nylon or metal?


"Dick Harms PA2DW"  made an utterence to
the drakelist gang
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Now of course an interesting question is, is there a source for metal gears
if ever our "nylons" get broken?

73, Dick/PA2DW
  -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
  Van: owner-drakelist{at}www.zerobeat.net
[mailto:owner-drakelist{at}www.zerobeat.net]Namens Eric Webner
  Verzonden: zondag 13 februari 2005 18:32
  Aan: drakelist{at}zerobeat.net
  Onderwerp: Re: [drakelist] R-4C gears nylon or metal?


  Would you believe DeWalt used to use nylon gears in the transmission of
their cordless drills? That made for a lot of repair bills. Now, they use
metal gears, and they last much much longer.

  Eric


  Lee Bahr  wrote:

    "Lee Bahr" made an utterence to the drakelist gang
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    What can wipe out the plastic gearing besides oiling and lubricating
them is
    BANGING THE GEARS ON THEIR END STOPS! I'm talking about running the dial
to
    the end of their travel rotation quickly while tuning across the band.
You
    can do this all day long with metal geared radios but not those with
plastic
    gears.

    I bought a new C-line when they first came out and the radios had
plastic
    gearing. (I had been using a metal geared TR-4 up until this point in
time
    and had been used to running and banging the dial up to it's end points
    while scanning the band.). I found out very quickly you could not do
this
    with a radio with plastic gears. Within two months of purchase Drake had
    sent me 3 new gear! ed PTOs as replacements. (The banging warped the
gearing
    so they did not rotate smoothly and freely as when new). Once I changed
my
    ways and did not bang against the end stops, my problems with plastic
gears
    went away.

    Lee, w0vt


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Now of course an interesting question is, is =
there a=20
source for metal gears if ever our "nylons" get =
broken?
 
73, Dick/PA2DW

  -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----Van:=20
  owner-drakelist{at}www.zerobeat.net=20
  [mailto:owner-drakelist{at}www.zerobeat.net]Namens Eric=20
  WebnerVerzonden: zondag 13 februari 2005 =
18:32Aan:=20
  drakelist{at}zerobeat.netOnderwerp: Re:
[drakelist] R-4C gears =

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