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DIALS
Yay! The front panel is back together again. Also shown: my favourite lube for things like shaft-bushings. I had to apply partial-drops to the end of a piece of wire, then guide the small amount of lubricant into several tight areas. Capacitor-, switch- and pulley-shafts were all treated to this stuff (which, BTW, worked miracles on the screeching helical-gears in my TS-850's antenna-tuner).
Some quick notes:
- dials pretty much go all the way back, very nearly touching the lamps. Otherwise they will contact the back of the escutcheon
- lightly snug the two Bristol set-screws, test-fit the panel, and if the red line isn't where you want, you can gently use your fingers on the outer edge of the dial to rotate it until you are satisfied with the line-up. Lots of panel-on / panel-off... Snug the Bristols.
- the SSB/CW switch-wires will contact a pulley-bracket. The bracket is insulated, but it bears close inspection - I used a shaving-mirror to look up from the Power Supply compartment - but really, all I could tell was that it was scrunched :-(