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Tuning Tool Availability
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I just use a wooded handled 1/4" drive nut-driver like the one pictured below to adjust any RF, Oscillator and Antenna Adjustment nuts, and I don't have any issues with arcing or shorting of the adjustments, actually I had heard elsewhere (Mr. Carlson's Lab) that as long as the adjustments for the radio (e. g. RF, Oscillator, Antenna, etc.) aren't hot (don't have the B+ connected across them) then you really don't need to use a non-metallic screw driver or nut driver to make adjustments to a radio's RF, Oscillator, Antenna, or IF adjustments, as long as the screw driver or nut driver in question has an insultated handle. 

So really any metallic screw or nut driver with an insulated handle will suffice in this situaton as long as the adjustments in question aren't hot (which in this case all of your adjustments shouldn't be hot, one exception that I know of is the 116 Series of Philco radios where the 2nd and 3rd IF primary and secondary Coil Adjustments are hot but the 1st IF primary and secondary coil adjustments are not hot and neither is the 2nd IF tertiary adjustment).

I hope this helps.


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Tuning Tool Availability - by Jimmiek - 01-25-2020, 03:58 PM
RE: Tuning Tool Availability - by Stall-U-Rated - 01-25-2020, 04:19 PM
RE: Tuning Tool Availability - by klondike98 - 01-25-2020, 07:18 PM
RE: Tuning Tool Availability - by Jimmiek - 01-25-2020, 09:47 PM
RE: Tuning Tool Availability - by klondike98 - 01-26-2020, 01:35 PM
RE: Tuning Tool Availability - by captainclock1988 - 01-27-2020, 08:44 PM
RE: Tuning Tool Availability - by morzh - 01-27-2020, 10:44 PM
RE: Tuning Tool Availability - by rfeenstra - 01-27-2020, 11:39 PM
RE: Tuning Tool Availability - by morzh - 01-28-2020, 12:00 PM



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