At 5/30/2009 08:06, you wrote: >Yes I have and I know they can be hard to see. But don't think thats it >but will be tearing it a apart again and clean and resolder as that did >seem to make progress with the issue. At first with the problem I could >get the sensistivity up to .35 better than spec with pulling out the RCA >jack to only the center pin connected now that doesn't help much so why I >think it was bypassing the loss of the filter stage and the fact that >possible resoldering the coil base improved the issue concurs with my thought. >Randy
For those who've never actually seen "tin whiskers", I took a pic of the helical resonator cover plate of the last MVP I had to service for this problem. Bob NO6B