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Zenith 12-S-265 (chassis 1204)
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I took the turret strip and power resistors and made my preliminary candohm replacement.  I still have to cutoff the excess length, but the finished strip will be almost identical in length to the original candohm, which has at least two bad sections.

A few notes:  I used 10 & 5 watt resistors per the recommendation of John Goller (K9UWA).

I decided to remove the unused turrets and found the easiest way was to use a 9/64 drill bit on the bottom and just lightly remove the small lip on the bottom of the turret.

To get two resistor leads to fit in the turret I had to gently enlarge them slightly with a 3/32 drill bit.  There are ways around this but it would not be as neat.  If you do this drill slowly and practice on a couple of the unused turrets because the first two I tried did not go well.  As you can see I wound up with several extra turrets that I could glue back if needed, or if I found a similar piece of base material drill it and make a custom turret strip for a candohm replacement.

All-in-all I'm pleased with how it turned out and my connections to the candohm can just be wrapped around the applicable turret and soldered.

   

John KK4ZLF
Lexington, KY
"illegitimis non carborundum"


Messages In This Thread
Zenith 12-S-265 (chassis 1204) - by Eliot Ness - 05-08-2020, 06:51 PM
RE: Zenith 12-S-265 (chassis 1204) - by morzh - 05-08-2020, 08:22 PM
RE: Zenith 12-S-265 (chassis 1204) - by morzh - 05-09-2020, 01:45 PM
RE: Zenith 12-S-265 (chassis 1204) - by morzh - 05-09-2020, 03:01 PM
RE: Zenith 12-S-265 (chassis 1204) - by morzh - 05-09-2020, 04:52 PM
RE: Zenith 12-S-265 (chassis 1204) - by Eliot Ness - 05-11-2020, 04:06 PM
RE: Zenith 12-S-265 (chassis 1204) - by KCMike - 05-11-2020, 05:28 PM
RE: Zenith 12-S-265 (chassis 1204) - by rfeenstra - 05-22-2020, 04:09 PM
RE: Zenith 12-S-265 (chassis 1204) - by morzh - 05-23-2020, 11:22 AM
RE: Zenith 12-S-265 (chassis 1204) - by morzh - 05-23-2020, 12:06 PM
RE: Zenith 12-S-265 (chassis 1204) - by rfeenstra - 05-23-2020, 01:15 PM
RE: Zenith 12-S-265 (chassis 1204) - by morzh - 06-12-2020, 06:57 PM



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