Hammy Hambone slaughters and butchers a nice KW Matchbox

[N3DRB The Derb]

we are stripping her down to bare chassis, and will update with pix when there is something to show that's good rig porno.

I removed the coil assembly last nite, and Hammy wound a new input coil. Why?
What the hell could have been wrong with the old one?? 

You wanna talk about FUGLY......

I believe since I have front panel holes I cant really repair without major trouble, and I have to take out Hammy ridiculous input coil,
that will use one of them to select a few taps on a new coil along with a decent variable in series. This will widen the range and provide a measure of overcoupling capability. Haven't looked at the extra switches yet.

[k4kyv]

I  suspect many of the Hammy Hambone projects originate because Hammy is too cheap to buy a plug 'n play appliance, but he has little interest and no appreciation for the art of homebrewing.  He actually is envious of the boys with the expensive commercial leenyars. He just wants to get on the air and TALK!

[N3DRB The Derb]

gonna take pix of this 'coil'. It doesn't short to the main L, that's all I can say about it. He also changed the tap positions on the main coil, but he got the turns counts count wrong -  one end has a tap at 7 turns the other one at 5 turns.

No better way to destroy the balance of the tuner. On the other hand, I think I may have lucked out big time. I think all he did
was uncouple the band switches and move them and drill 2 more holes in the front panel for 2 shafts. They look factory to me. I unsoldered every thing off both switches and will look more. Might be able to restore the single bandswitch in the right spot. 

This thing will never be "collectors quality"  but it will work better than Johnson made it when I'm done. And I no longer need another tuner, or another amp for that matter. Just a coax switch or 2 to switch the amp and tuner between the 2 Yaesu's. I can use that big ass knife switch Phred sent me to switch feeders & antennas. 

[N3DRB The Derb]

Observe how hammy Hambone winds a new coil. "The quality goes out before the RF goes in."

Why? What on earth could have been wrong with the old input coil? 

yuck

[N3DRB The Derb]

Off to Richmond fester we go.

main target for today:  PARTS! PARTS! PARTS! JUNKBOX PARTS!

edge wound broadcast TX coil to replace hammy's best work.

fixed value transmitting micas to do the 160 mod on the flash box the right way.

any cheap ceramic rotary switch with silver anything.

Smaller air variable cap for the input coil in series with the rf input.

Got my cheeze and crackers, got my Iron City beer.....camera too......off we go.

[ka3zlr]

Derb, the only thing that rates is a pair of Dykes and save the coil...what a mess...yuk..

[GEORGE/W2AMR]

It hurts to look upon those pictures....

I have see car crashes with fatalities that were not as disturbing as this. 

[k4kyv]

The original edgewound coil appears intact, and that green stuff appears to be the stock insulation.  The insulated support bar still has notches that uniformly maintain proper spacing of the coil, so I would keep it.  You could always fill the holes with epoxy if they present an aesthetic or mechanical deficiency.  The coil could be salvaged by removing Hammy's JS coupling coil and replacing it with a proper one.

I have picked up edgewound coils at hamfests in which the insulating support bars had been cracked and destroyed, for almost nothing because of the damaged condition, and made homebrew replacements out of bakelite or plexiglas.  It is tedious to saw the slots so that spacing between the turns is uniform, but it can be done.

Love those two shorted turns in the coupling coil, that share the same  hole.

[N3DRB The Derb]

yeah , that was good. Richmond hamfest today was real good, a lot of BA's an a fair bunch of good junkbox junk and at least 4 or 5 big HB rigs/amps including a 4X1 complete with tube and chimney in a 4 ft black crackle rack. The transformer looked a bit scrote less.

Met up with HUZ and Johnny Novice there and got some cheap deals. JN found a johnson swr meter with the coupler, which was he main item I was after,
gave it to me for what he paid for it. Made my day right there. Got quite a few junkbox goodies including 2 new replacement bandswitches for miss Jenny Gonset the amp, at least hey are damn close if not identical. Got a nice rf ammeter in a slanted minibox wih so-239's in and out, couple of open frame relays. Did'nt score a coil for the tuna, but we will roll our own from Home Depot. The only ones there big enough the dude wanted 20 bucks each for.

300 miles round trip and worth every minute. I'll post pix of teh loot later.