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CB internal coax to antenna jack broke off.
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thermodyne mack engines called a turbocharger an exhaust silencer. so sorry there actually is muffler bearings. those thermodyne macks came from factory straight piped
Here's a fix I have made standard any time the factory coax socket gives me trouble in a RCI base radio. The pics show the inside of a RCI2990 that would become a bench radio. The coax socket is an upgrade. Insulation is Delrin, came from a fleabay dealer called "razern".
Biggest upgrade is that the center-pin material retains its spring temper. The factory sockets are famous for going slack.
A closer view shows why I use teflon coax for this task. Getting a good solder connection to the shield braid won't melt the center-conductor dielectric.
Didn't check to see that the wire was in focus. A piece of thin wire, like #24 is wrapped around the braid at the edge of the outer jacket and soldered. Each end bent down parallel to the coax to be the same length as the center conductor.
The tiny coax socket at the other end where the factory coax plugged into the SWR meter board gets removed. The 3 wires on the end of the coax go into the 3 pcb holes where the socket came out.
More than one way to skin this cat. Don't think we ever got a "re-run" complaint doing it this way.
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Biggest upgrade is that the center-pin material retains its spring temper. The factory sockets are famous for going slack.
A closer view shows why I use teflon coax for this task. Getting a good solder connection to the shield braid won't melt the center-conductor dielectric.
Didn't check to see that the wire was in focus. A piece of thin wire, like #24 is wrapped around the braid at the edge of the outer jacket and soldered. Each end bent down parallel to the coax to be the same length as the center conductor.
The tiny coax socket at the other end where the factory coax plugged into the SWR meter board gets removed. The 3 wires on the end of the coax go into the 3 pcb holes where the socket came out.
More than one way to skin this cat. Don't think we ever got a "re-run" complaint doing it this way.
73