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Old 02-08-2015, 09:25 AM
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Originally Posted by Zenith6S321 View Post
Here is a picture of the SAMs IF frequency response. Figure 1 is the third IF and figure 2 is the first and second response. The next picture shows the third IF response is pretty close to what SAMs shows (you have flip the plot horizontally to match my scope). The next picture is what I got for the first and second IF response. Its way off. The response at the 45.75 MHz marker shown should be much lower amplitude. Following SAMs alignment I tried to adjust A6, the 41.25 MHz trap and found it very hard to turn because its core was coming apart. I pulled the chassis, removed the coil, and removed the core. One end had two small pieces broken off. I tried a shorter ferrite core to see if the coil form was too tight. It was very tight. I ended up finding that a 1/4"-28 tap matches this ferrite core. So I tapped the coil form as shown in the next picture. The last picture shows the shavings removed from the coil form. The small ferrite core now threads nicely though the core. I am trying to glue the two small ferrite pieces back onto the broken core. If they hold, I will invert the core so that the broken pieces will be at the end that is not usually used for adjusting. Anyone know of a place to buy 1/4" threaded ferrite cores?

Dave
I've got a bunch (~ half of a cigar box full) of ferrite cores - how long?

I always pulled the cores from sets I junked - and at my dad's shop, I was the TV stripper/parts puller/gofer. I probably have junked over 300 sets in 30+ years. First we saved everything, then just certain chassis, then just modules, and finally, only good chassis/CRTs. My user name comes from my attitude - if you find it, keep it. Someone, somewhere will likely need it.

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