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[JohnCT]

Anyone have any thoughts of burnishing some graphite into the slug before reinserting it? It might decrease stiction enough to prevent it splitting and becoming an expanding brake in the coil core..

John

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by JohnCT

Anyone have any thoughts of burnishing some graphite into the slug before reinserting it? It might decrease stiction enough to prevent it splitting and becoming an expanding brake in the coil core..

John

That's only effective if you first clean the inside bore of the coil and the threads of the slug with a Q-tip soaked in a fluid that dissolves wax (such as Goof Off)... Many coils are exposed to enough heat in opperation to soften or melt wax and once wax has melted in to the threads it's only slightly less bad than glue...

[SwizzyMan]

I went through and replaced a bunch of off value resistors in the chroma and IF section and am going to attempt another IF and chroma alignment. I am debating putting the crt back in the chassis since having it installed makes the chassis awkward to work on and puts some mechanical stress on the crt when tilted on its side. Do I really need the crt installed to do alignments and dip the HOT cathode current?

[SwizzyMan]

Well the coil troubles have gotten worse. While trying to perform an IF alignment on the set I ran into a coil (L9-41.25 and 47.25mhz trap) that had its slug frozen inside of the shaft. Long story short no amount of heating would make it budge so I ended up having to break up the slug inside of the shaft. I now need a replacement slug and luckily the top slug in the coil was able to be removed so I was able to get some measurements of the replacement I need. Coincidentally, the slug out of this coil appears to be identical in size to the chipped slug in the 3.58 trap. Does anyone have 2 of these slugs? Or is there somewhere I could possibly find some? Can't continue any work until I get this problem sorted out so any help is appreciated.

[ohohyodafarted]

Heating alone is only half the solution. You need to be able to dissolve the hardened wax. I use a squirt of WD40, wait overnight, and if it still will not turn, then hit it with heat gun and more WD40. Also, never use anything besides a plastic alignment tool. Allen wrenches are a sure way to crack the ferite core.

[SwizzyMan]

I was originally going to try using WD40, but I was concerned on how it would affect the cardboard tube so I held off. I'll keep that method in mind from now on. And I have confirmed that that the thread size of the slug is 1/4-28 so that should help.