01-12-2011, 10:43 AM
I'll drink to that Mike (trouble is I don't drink)
A slot at both ends of the slug always helps as you can always have a go from the other end of the former but in a lot of these early receivers the slugs only have a slot at one end, the worst ones I used to encounter were back in my days of a telly engineer, usually hex cored in a plastic/polystyrene former which had shrunk wrapped themselves round the slug due to the internal heat of the TV, it usually meant breaking them out and carefully cleaning out the former thread, we used to sand the peaks off the new slug thread then apply MS4 to the former and the slug as a lubricant and wind the new slug up and down a couple of times then it was out with the old E2 and some realignment.
Lawrence
A slot at both ends of the slug always helps as you can always have a go from the other end of the former but in a lot of these early receivers the slugs only have a slot at one end, the worst ones I used to encounter were back in my days of a telly engineer, usually hex cored in a plastic/polystyrene former which had shrunk wrapped themselves round the slug due to the internal heat of the TV, it usually meant breaking them out and carefully cleaning out the former thread, we used to sand the peaks off the new slug thread then apply MS4 to the former and the slug as a lubricant and wind the new slug up and down a couple of times then it was out with the old E2 and some realignment.
Lawrence
