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Need help restoring my 40-180 - SUCCESS
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Eric, It looks like a big job, but it's not really that bad. Start off working on an easy area of the chassis and take your time, you'll be surprised how fast it goes. I'd work on mine for about an hour or so until it started to get tedious or frustrating, then I would stop. As for replacing all of the resisitors, you don't have to. Check the resistors and see what they measure. If they are within 10 to 20 percent of tolerance and look okay you can leave them in if you want. I replaced mine because most of them had drifted quite a bit and I had new resistors on hand. Also, in my humble opinion, instead of sleeving the old wires with heatshrink tubing, i would just replace them with new 22 gauge vinyl coated wire. It just seems to be a lot more work trying to snake the heatshrink onto the existing wire to me. Modern wire available and not that expensive. again this is just my personal preference!
Kevin


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RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by marty - 08-26-2013, 01:12 PM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by EricS - 08-26-2013, 01:33 PM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by klondike98 - 08-26-2013, 01:42 PM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by EricS - 08-26-2013, 01:48 PM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by marty - 08-26-2013, 02:04 PM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by EricS - 08-26-2013, 08:46 PM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by EricS - 08-27-2013, 07:50 AM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by marty - 08-27-2013, 09:08 AM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by EricS - 08-27-2013, 09:56 AM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by Jamie - 08-27-2013, 02:16 PM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by codefox1 - 08-27-2013, 05:25 PM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by marty - 08-27-2013, 06:43 PM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by marty - 08-27-2013, 07:55 PM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by EricS - 08-27-2013, 09:45 PM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by EricS - 08-28-2013, 05:53 PM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by marty - 08-28-2013, 06:00 PM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by Raleigh - 08-28-2013, 06:37 PM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by EricS - 08-29-2013, 08:47 PM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by marty - 08-29-2013, 09:23 PM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by 37silverstreak - 08-29-2013, 09:32 PM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by EricS - 09-08-2013, 07:33 PM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by TA Forbes - 09-08-2013, 07:52 PM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by EricS - 09-08-2013, 07:58 PM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by EricS - 09-08-2013, 08:44 PM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by EricS - 09-09-2013, 07:29 AM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by morzh - 09-11-2013, 09:22 PM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by BrendaAnnD - 09-11-2013, 11:35 PM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by BrendaAnnD - 09-13-2013, 03:51 AM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by BrendaAnnD - 09-13-2013, 11:19 AM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by EricS - 09-20-2013, 10:41 PM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by EricS - 10-11-2013, 06:32 PM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by Jamie - 10-11-2013, 07:00 PM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by EricS - 10-13-2013, 06:25 PM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by EricS - 10-23-2013, 08:28 PM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by DeckApe - 10-28-2013, 05:11 PM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by EricS - 10-28-2013, 09:17 PM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by DeckApe - 11-21-2013, 12:19 PM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by EricS - 08-10-2014, 08:04 AM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by murf - 08-10-2014, 08:41 AM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by murf - 08-10-2014, 08:57 AM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by morzh - 08-10-2014, 10:51 AM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by EricS - 08-10-2014, 03:09 PM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by morzh - 08-10-2014, 03:13 PM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by EricS - 08-10-2014, 09:10 PM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by morzh - 08-10-2014, 09:18 PM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by EricS - 08-10-2014, 10:14 PM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by EricS - 08-11-2014, 07:32 AM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by morzh - 08-11-2014, 08:37 AM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by EricS - 08-11-2014, 01:54 PM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by morzh - 08-11-2014, 02:06 PM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by EricS - 08-11-2014, 02:58 PM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by morzh - 08-11-2014, 03:09 PM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by morzh - 08-11-2014, 03:13 PM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by EricS - 08-21-2014, 08:17 PM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by morzh - 08-21-2014, 08:40 PM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by EricS - 08-21-2014, 09:49 PM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by EricS - 08-22-2014, 07:33 AM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by EricS - 08-22-2014, 07:50 AM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by morzh - 08-22-2014, 09:51 AM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by EricS - 08-22-2014, 05:48 PM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by morzh - 08-22-2014, 06:11 PM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by EricS - 08-22-2014, 09:37 PM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by morzh - 08-22-2014, 09:58 PM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by EricS - 08-25-2014, 08:01 PM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by murf - 08-25-2014, 08:48 PM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by EricS - 08-26-2014, 11:51 AM
RE: Need help restoring my 40-180 - by EricS - 08-28-2014, 08:59 PM



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