From: Garey Barrell 
Subject: Re: [drakelist] R-4C gears nylon or metal?


Garey Barrell  made an utterence to the drakelist gang
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Dick -

Probably not, short of a junker unit.  

Best advice is to keep them clean, NO oil or grease, don't slam them 
against the stops and they'll probably outlast us!

73, Garey - K4OAH
Atlanta

Drake C-Line Service Manual
http://hr99.home.mindspring.com/R-4C_Servicez/>



Dick Harms PA2DW wrote:

> 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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