My foot switch that I bought around 1990 at a ham fest and had stood up to thousands of contacts in many phone contests has only the identifying sticker "Made in Taiwan"
Cookie, K5EWJ --- Barry N1EU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Bill W5WVO wrote: > > > > I've had to repair my Heil foot switch numerous > times. > > The little "e" ring that holds the pivot axle in > has a habit of coming off > > spontaneously (I completely lost it a while back) > > > Your description does not match the pivot hardware > in my two Heil foot > switches. So it seems that Heil has gone through a > few designs of the pivot > mechanism. > > The pivot mechanism in my foot switches consists > entirely of a single pivot > screw that is threaded on the end with an unthreaded > shoulder up toward the > screw head. So the pivot screw becomes fixed with > the inner half of the > (threaded) clamshell and rotates freely around the > outer half of the > (unthreaded) clamshell. The threads eventually fail > and the pivot screws > keeps loosening and falling out. The kludge fix is > to discard the pivot > screws, drill out the holes, and use a single long > machine screw as the > pivot axis and secure it on the far end with a > nylock nut. > > Evidently other Heil designs may be more reliable. > Mine were purchased 5-7 > years ago and started to fail about two years later. > Lots of use during ssb > contests. > > 73, > Barry N1EU > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Serious-foot-switches-tp16200556p16205616.html > Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > You must be a subscriber to post to the list. > Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm > Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com > Willis 'Cookie' Cooke K5EWJ _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
