01-01-2011, 07:13 PM
I've fooled with these sets since the darliest days I ever saw one (the 1940's). This won't work on all of them, because the tuning caps deteriorate ifferently. Each is its own case.
I have been able to get a small screwdriver with a long shank in between the rotor plates, and some times the stator plates as well. I've managed to bend each plate right at the pot metal shaft casting, and work the plate evenly between the other ones. The first time I did this was on a neighbor's 90 chassis set, back in the forties, and I got it working. I've done it on several others, both the 70 and the 90 sets. My success hasn't been 100 %, but not a bad score, nonetheless.
I need to write a book on this, sometime.
I have been able to get a small screwdriver with a long shank in between the rotor plates, and some times the stator plates as well. I've managed to bend each plate right at the pot metal shaft casting, and work the plate evenly between the other ones. The first time I did this was on a neighbor's 90 chassis set, back in the forties, and I got it working. I've done it on several others, both the 70 and the 90 sets. My success hasn't been 100 %, but not a bad score, nonetheless.
I need to write a book on this, sometime.
