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    "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/GFMTYTRODCB3DJDIY3WLMY6MG66ZKRHP/",
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    "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/GFMTYTRODCB3DJDIY3WLMY6MG66ZKRHP/",
    "sender": {
        "address": "wb5rmg (a) somenet.net",
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    "sender_name": "Alan Sieg WB5RMG",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb]  FT-736 tuning dial",
    "date": "2009-02-03T03:50:00Z",
    "parent": null,
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    "content": "Thanks for all the encouraging words of advice and consolation.\nI've heard from concerned friends all around the world in less than 24 hr.\nNo less than a dozen by direct email, as well as some via the AMSAT-BB.\nThis is an amazing team we have, isn't it.    Honestly - Thank You All.\n\nSo, while not fully recovered - the prognosis is good for my trusty radio.\nStill in intensive care (with covers off), the major surgery went well.\nI first carefully pried off the shiny knob face, then gradually slipped a\ntiny screwdriver in under the knob rubber, moving around the dial - working\nit steadily off of the knob without stretching it. This revealed two holes,\none of which gives access to the one set screw. Not the old-fashioned\nhex-hole requiring an Allen wrench, but a hex spline - my tool says \"T-8\".\n\nOnce the knob was off, I went ahead and removed the top and bottom covers\nso as to allow the front panel to hinge down revealing the inside of the\nencoder. I really didn't want to remove this, but needed to see that\nthere was nothing inside that would be readily helpful. With the radio\nstanding on it's back-side heat sink fins, face-up - I applied a few\ntiny tiny drops of WD40 with a tiny screwdriver, to the shaft where it\nenters the panel mount bushing (with the screw threads and big nut)...\nI turned the knob 360 degrees and applied a few more drops - and left it\nto penetrate for a while. Then came back and turned it and gave a few more\ntiny drops. I don't want WD40 inside the encoder if at all possible. If\nI don't take the shaft out of the bushing, I'll have to depend upon the WD40\nand my incessant turning to eventually break down the dust or crud that\nhad apparently gotten bolluxed into the juncture. I'll look at it as\nhelping my friend thru a theraputic recovery process.\n  Learning to tune again.\n\nI repeated the process several times, and it got a little bit better each\ntime. I had to go to work today, and there was no one home to do this\nevery so often - so it may take a bit longer. It may be that by removing\nthe encoder from the panel, I would see a better way, but I'll hope that\nmy patience and persistence will pay off. It may never be as silky smooth\nas it was for the last 20 years, but I'm certain that it is on the road\nto recovery. While I wait for the WD40 to penetrate, I've been cleaning\nthe face and knobs and buttons on my ol'buddy. It is truly amazing how\nnasty-dirty that stuff can get. Especially the buttons you DON'T push...\nJust a hint of WD40 on a Q-Tip can work wonders down in those grooves.\n\nSuch a long way from the first radio dial I ever re-strung. Can you believe\nthat we used to do this with a spring-loaded string wrapped around a shaft,\nfed around pulleys, and tied to a wheel on the end of the shaft thru an\nair-variable capacitor ..?..    Uggh, and before that we had \"crystals\"...\n\nI guess the WD40 is more of a rite-of-passage. Merely a mild stroke if\nyou would. At least this time I didn't have to get out the duct-tape.\nThanks again everyone who sat up late awaiting word from the recovery room.\nI think we're out of the woods as they say.\n At least I can see a clearing from here.\n\nThanks again and 73 for now   /;^)\n-- \n  <- Licensed in 1976, WB5RMG = Alan Sieg * AMSAT#20554 ->\n  <- http://www.somenet.net * http://wb5rmg.somenet.net ->\n  <- http://www.linkedin.com/in/alansieg * My 'Day Job' ->\n\n",
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