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The first ¼” gooseneck is a success! It’s not perfect, but it’s close enough, and matches the aesthetic of the osc panel much better than the original!
The oscillator is gutted! All that remains is to remove the front panel… that is proving to be a bit of a challenge. The bolts holding the panel in place are in such tight spaces that I’ve not been able to get them out yet. They are right up against the sides of the case, so I can’t really get at them with a socket wrench. I may have to give up and cut out the sides of the case to get at them. At least then I won’t have to think about whether or not to build a new enclosure, I’ll have to.
The guts included an impressive assortment of vintage resistors and capacitors, including some of the physically largest capacitors I’ve yet seen, about the size of two D cell batteries stacked end to end. I had a bit of worry during the teardown. The frequency knob is a really nice assembly geared such that the outer indicator ring, and the control shaft rotate more slowly than the knob, the whole think is linked to monster of a dual air variable cap. The thing is, the knob assembly ends in a shaft… The post I want to connect it to also ends in a shaft… So I was starting to worry that I would have no easy way of connecting the two. Turns out the variable cap ends in a shaft as well, and there is a nifty little adjustable adaptor attaching the knob shaft to the cap shaft, and I can use it the same way to link the knob to the frequency control pot!
Now for the panel jacks… replacement UHF panel jacks are easy to come by, I have ordered a few and will sort out how to convert one into a home for the LDR as soon as they arrive… the ¼” jack is being a bit more problematic. Neutrik and Switchcraft both offer panel jacks of the correct form factor, but not as switching jacks. SO I can either give up on the aesthetic I want or the functionality.
The oscillator is gutted! All that remains is to remove the front panel… that is proving to be a bit of a challenge. The bolts holding the panel in place are in such tight spaces that I’ve not been able to get them out yet. They are right up against the sides of the case, so I can’t really get at them with a socket wrench. I may have to give up and cut out the sides of the case to get at them. At least then I won’t have to think about whether or not to build a new enclosure, I’ll have to.
The guts included an impressive assortment of vintage resistors and capacitors, including some of the physically largest capacitors I’ve yet seen, about the size of two D cell batteries stacked end to end. I had a bit of worry during the teardown. The frequency knob is a really nice assembly geared such that the outer indicator ring, and the control shaft rotate more slowly than the knob, the whole think is linked to monster of a dual air variable cap. The thing is, the knob assembly ends in a shaft… The post I want to connect it to also ends in a shaft… So I was starting to worry that I would have no easy way of connecting the two. Turns out the variable cap ends in a shaft as well, and there is a nifty little adjustable adaptor attaching the knob shaft to the cap shaft, and I can use it the same way to link the knob to the frequency control pot!
Now for the panel jacks… replacement UHF panel jacks are easy to come by, I have ordered a few and will sort out how to convert one into a home for the LDR as soon as they arrive… the ¼” jack is being a bit more problematic. Neutrik and Switchcraft both offer panel jacks of the correct form factor, but not as switching jacks. SO I can either give up on the aesthetic I want or the functionality.