[Winky Dink]

Kevin: I've been looking for a leak to ground, and that's why I was asking about my finding of a short through the first tuning capacitor. The stator is grounded through the RF transformer secondary. The rotor is grounded directly. I recognized that the rotor and stator would short through their ground connections, so disconnected the RF transformer ground before testing stator-to-rotor connectivity.

I can't see or feel any contact between stator and rotor plates yet I still found a stator-rotor short, measuring 4 ohms. The RF transformer coil also measured 4 ohms, which seemed like a peculiar coincidence.

So, I was trying to find out if there might be a another explanation for a stator-rotor short other than plate contact before I proceeded.

Thanks.