22-12-2013, 04:38 PM
The thing sticking out that you removed is there to stop the core (what you describe as pencil lead) from moving due to vibration. As you have found, moving the IFT core detunes the IF stage and makes reception worse. Don't touch the core unnecessarily as you could make things much worse. Having said all that, someone may have been fiddling with the cores before you and the improvement you have found has simply corrected that.
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