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Look165 <look165@numericable.fr>: Feb 20 10:55AM +0100 Generallly, it comes from a bas contact between the cursor aand the resistive track (dust or oxyde). It can also come from a miscontact between this track and the connecting pad or a "dry solder". First step : re-solder everything. Second step : use some KF or equivalent in large quantity inside (through the opening of the leads).   Peter Jason a écrit le 20/02/2019 à 02:06 :

Peter Jason <pj@jostle.com>: Feb 20 12:06PM +1100 I have one of these......   https://i.ytimg.com/vi/1VHkWsb9MY0/maxresdefault.jpg     The volume control wheel (at the side) has lost all fine-tuning capability, and makes appalling noises when operated as it jumps at random from high to low volume.   Is there a fix; is it a loose connection, dust or grit in the works? Should I just flush it out.   Otherwise the radio works well.

Peter Jason <pj@jostle.com>: Feb 28 11:36AM +1100 On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 12:06:09 +1100, Peter Jason   >Is there a fix; is it a loose connection, dust or >grit in the works? Should I just flush it out.   >Otherwise the radio works well.   I fixed it by flushing the area around the volume wheel with isoPropanol. The wheel is slightly harder to turn though this might improve as remaining traces of solvent evaporate.

Fox's Mercantile <jdangus@att.net>: Feb 27 06:41PM -0600 On 2/27/19 6:36 PM, Peter Jason wrote: > wheel with isoPropanol. The wheel is slightly > harder to turn though this might improve as > remaining traces of solvent evaporate.   It won't. You've flushed all the lubrication out of it.     -- "I am a river to my people." Jeff-1.0 WA6FWi http:foxsmercantile.com

Phil Allison <pallison49@gmail.com>: Feb 27 05:00PM -0800 Peter Jerkoff Jason wrote:   > wheel with isoPropanol. The wheel is slightly > harder to turn though this might improve as > remaining traces of solvent evaporate.   ** Nobody here suggested you do that.   What a fucking idiot you are.       .... Phil

Peter Jason <pj@jostle.com>: Feb 28 12:09PM +1100 On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 18:41:53 -0600, Fox's >> remaining traces of solvent evaporate.   >It won't. You've flushed all the lubrication out of >it.   ....er, what can I use as a replacement lubricant?

Peter Jason <pj@jostle.com>: Feb 28 12:10PM +1100 On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 17:00:11 -0800 (PST), Phil   >** Nobody here suggested you do that.   > What a fucking idiot you are.   > .... Phil   How rude! Your endless brawling with other posters has got me flummoxed and confused.

Fox's Mercantile <jdangus@att.net>: Feb 27 07:13PM -0600 On 2/27/19 7:09 PM, Peter Jason wrote:   >> It won't. You've flushed all the lubrication out of >> it.   > ....er, what can I use as a replacement lubricant?   What we told you to use to begin with. <https://caig.com/fader-f-series/>     -- "I am a river to my people." Jeff-1.0 WA6FWi http:foxsmercantile.com

Fox's Mercantile <jdangus@att.net>: Feb 27 07:15PM -0600 On 2/27/19 7:10 PM, Peter Jason wrote: > How rude! Your endless brawling with other posters > has got me flummoxed and confused.   You have two choices with Phil, agree with him, or ignore him.   -- "I am a river to my people." Jeff-1.0 WA6FWi http:foxsmercantile.com

Peter Jason <pj@jostle.com>: Feb 28 12:15PM +1100 On Tue, 26 Feb 2019 05:37:45 -0800 (PST), Terry   >That is all true -- except that the common detergent packs or liquids are extremely caustic. Much more so than the liquids used for hand-washing dishes. Something to consider.   >Terry   >> Point being that a well-designed unit will get dishes cleaner, using less water, less energy and fewer chemicals than hand-washing unless one is incredibly efficient about it. The dynamics change if one lives alone, or has on-site sanitation, tankless water heater and any of several other conditions that mitigate towards hand-washing.   Yes, I live alone in unalloyed bliss. Additionally, I can get by on but one shower/week (except during heat waves and the odd bone-chilling winter's day.)

% <persent@gmail.com>: Feb 19 07:15PM -0700 On 2019-02-19 7:02 p.m., Rod Speed wrote: >> turns the power off and on, when it comes on, the radio doesn't start >> until someone pushes a button.   > They arent all like that. Just replace the radio with a better analog one.     and get on SiriusXM

danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com>: Feb 20 04:07AM >> what makes radios drift from the proper tuning?   >How old and crappy are your radios? Have you made it up to a >superheterodyne or are you still in the regenerative era?   Me, I'm still waiting to upgrade to using a stainless steel razor blade for mine...   -- _____________________________________________________ Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key dannyb@panix.com [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]

Sjouke Burry <burrynulnulfour@ppllaanneett.nnll>: Feb 20 02:54AM +0100 On 20-2-2019 0:58, micky wrote:   > I can't use radios with electronic tuning because with a timer that > turns the power off and on, when it comes on, the radio doesn't start > until someone pushes a button.   Any or all of the above.

micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com>: Feb 19 11:27PM -0500 In alt.home.repair, on Tue, 19 Feb 2019 20:54:12 -0500, >> a little bit? Or do the parts get warm and some value changes?   >> Is this more common in AM than FM? or vice versa? FM has AFC but iirc >> AM doesn't have that.   This is not as bad as some seem to have gleaned. This method will work, I just wanted to shorten the time it would take me to find the right radio, the right AM or FM band, and a a good station >> turns the power off and on, when it comes on, the radio doesn't start >> until someone pushes a button.   >Do you have a TV with cable access ?   No, I don't.   >If so, does the cable service have >music only channels ? Our Xfinity/Comcast does.   It doesn't have to be music. Burglars don't know my tastes. It just has to be a radio or tv station.   BTW, I've been on 3 trips in the last 2 years totaling 160 days and no one has bothered my house at all. I just want to keep it that way.   >Have your timer turn the TV on/off. Leave cable box set to music channel.   If the timer provides power to the TV, someone has to press the TV's on/off button.   Thanks.

rbowman <bowman@montana.com>: Feb 19 08:53PM -0700 On 02/19/2019 04:58 PM, micky wrote: > what makes radios drift from the proper tuning?   How old and crappy are your radios? Have you made it up to a superheterodyne or are you still in the regenerative era?

devnull <devnull@127.0.0.1>: Feb 21 05:48AM -0500 On 2/19/19 6:58 PM, micky wrote: > and also a radio, but some radios get so far out of tune, even when I > don't touch them, that almost nothing comes out, and I'd like the radio > to continue to play the station clearly.       Are you afraid some border-hoppin' thief is going to steal your stuff?   The most effective way to keep the criminals out is to build a wall around your house. Open borders don't work.

George <george@spacely-sprokets.com>: Feb 21 06:32AM -0500 On 2/21/2019 5:48 AM, devnull wrote:   > Are you afraid some border-hoppin' thief is going to steal your stuff?   > The most effective way to keep the criminals out is to build a wall around your house.  Open borders don't work.   Nancy Pelosi has an immoral wall around her compound.  She also has people with guns protecting her home as well.

micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com>: Feb 19 06:58PM -0500 what makes radios drift from the proper tuning?   I have radios that I tune and after they play a while the tuning needs to be adjusted.   This is common, I assume.   What is happening? Does the vibration make the variable condenser shift a little bit? Or do the parts get warm and some value changes?   Is this more common in AM than FM? or vice versa? FM has AFC but iirc AM doesn't have that.         I am going away for a while and I want to use timers to turn on lights and also a radio, but some radios get so far out of tune, even when I don't touch them, that almost nothing comes out, and I'd like the radio to continue to play the station clearly.     I can't use radios with electronic tuning because with a timer that turns the power off and on, when it comes on, the radio doesn't start until someone pushes a button.

micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com>: Feb 19 08:46PM -0500 In alt.home.repair, on Tue, 19 Feb 2019 16:54:36 -0800 (PST), trader_4   >Usually the tuning issue is mostly with weaker stations. If the issue is   I didn't pay much attention until just now, but I think the common one was 88.1, which is pretty strong. I'd leave one radio on and even in the length of time it takes to take a bath, 30 minutes, the sound would get gnarled.   On my 250 dollar radio, 88.1 in Baltimore got lower in volume about a year ago, and 88.5 which is all the way in DC is now louder and probably more clear. (But that one has electronic tuning, have to push a button to get sound.)   BUT, none of the radios I actually use except the car radio can get 88.5, because it's all the way in DC. Yet on the good radio it comes in better.   I guess I figure that if it drifts on a somewhat weak station, it will drift on any station. Is that where AFC will make a difference? On FM only but not AM? (and with enough time it will drift so far it won't sound like a radio station.)   >over the years that stayed tuned to all kinds of stations AM and FM without >a problem. Micky is in MD too, right? Should be plenty of local, strong >stations.   Yes, just for making noise it doesn't have to be a station I would actually listen to. It could even play hiphop. it's a pain for testing however, having to listen to some of that.

George <george@spacely-sprokets.com>: Feb 21 01:12PM -0500 On 2/21/2019 11:38 AM, Bob F wrote:   >> Nancy Pelosi has an immoral wall around her compound.  She also has people with guns protecting her home as well.   > With people like you in this country, I can certainly understand her worries.   Ted Kennedy's Oldsmobile has killed more people than my handguns.

tubeguy@myshop.com: Feb 19 11:13PM -0600 In the 1960s the pocket radios hit the market and were sold everywhere. I have not opened one of them in years, but I recall the transistors used in them did not look like more modern types. They had a small metal can. Just a straight sided metal can, shaped like modern capacitors, but bare metal. Some had colored dots on them to identify the leads too.   First, I am thinking that they were geranium types. Is that correct?   Second, I have a very old GE transistor manual (edition 2) (PDF). No where in there does it mention the case style of them. What is the case style?   Seems those type of transistors came and went quickly. I assume they were the first generation of transistors.   Shortly after, I recall seeing a lot of metal cases that were shaped more like a hat, with a brim. Those too vanished. And I recall seeing some of the hat shaped types with a point sticking out of the top. I always wondered what that point was for???

bitrex <user@example.net>: Feb 20 05:08PM -0500 > can. Just a straight sided metal can, shaped like modern capacitors, but > bare metal. Some had colored dots on them to identify the leads too.   > First, I am thinking that they were geranium types. Is that correct?   Germanium, son. Geraniums are the perennials your wife grows in the garden.

Adam <adamg@pobox.comNOSPAM>: Feb 22 05:23AM > LED display on a small board that mounts to the front panel board.   > While the machine is a Philips/Magnavox based player, I do not know > what an equivalent model that might share the same display is.   I believe the Philips CD160, CD460, CD560, Magnavox CDB460, CDB560 and Sylvania CD1650 have this display. There are a few on eBay but they're not cheap!   There is a design for a DIY retrofit which may or may not be suitable: https://www.diyaudio.com/forums/digital-source/259790-nsm4202a-led-display-module-replacement-philips-sony-cdm-transports.html   -- Adam

Tim Schwartz <tim@bristolnj.com>: Feb 21 03:19PM -0500 Hello all,   A customer has an AR CD-04 with a bad display. This is a 4 digit green LED display on a small board that mounts to the front panel board.   While the machine is a Philips/Magnavox based player, I do not know what an equivalent model that might share the same display is.   Since I'd guess that many of these have been scrapped because of a defective CDM-2 mechanism, I'm hoping someone has saved a chassis that might have a good display or display board that they would be willing to sell me.   Gentlemen, please check you junk rooms!   Regards, Tim Schawrtz Bristol Electronics Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey

Look165 <look165@numericable.fr>: Feb 21 10:02PM +0100 Maybe the flat ribbon cable ; just shrten it at the end.   Tim Schwartz a écrit le 21/02/2019 à 21:19 :

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