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Scary Snake Radio "Setting Up" President Lincoln II V3

Well they better, that’s a high power modification that secures the modulation at peak level across the audio spectrum of the input decoupling capacitive splitting network.

I’m calling them right now and informing them I want that done to my 897.
 
Handy Andy said:
No they're plated steel - most of the time it's nickel - so solder will take to them - but only with a h*ll of a lot of heat and flux - it'll look like hell and not the best at bonding either.

It's better to leave the screws alone, and as needed - back them out, remove and reflow fresh solder onto the pads below the screw head for them. Take some simple alcohol to clean off any oxides off the screw to clean it, then replace screws and torque - firmly - not strip.

If the screws got rust, just replace with new ones 4mm stuff...
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4mm, would be case/lid screw size also? Got a length and thread pitch on that by chance?
 
I was being facetious. While this slithering fella is very questionable, I can take his voice over Jason any day of the week. And that’s not being facetious.
 
I can't find the sheet.
I learned about it because it was mentioned here on the forum and in one of his videos.
If I find it I will post back.

What it had was stuff like "echo board $xxx.xx" and so on.
"wire upgrades $xxx.xx"

It was a LONG list. And it remarked that these things were this price plus his hourly rate.

So the echo board would be, say, $50 + the time.
If it takes him an hour the echo board ends up being $80

This list had like 75+ items on it.
At least 50 of them were questionable or plain snake oil.

He said in a video that if you did not do his "suggested mods" that he would not guarantee the rest of the work. That forces you into a corner.

He gets some Cobra 148 and it ends up being $1,000 when he is done.
Go buy a Stryker or an Anytone. Just not from Fine Tune or the other charlatans that do "magic".
 
Well he sounds like maybe he worked in a truck stop cb shop. The few that are somewhat close to me charge about $65 to install an echo board.

He knit picks stuff that he boast about “fixing”, like the thermal paste in the first video. I’ve never seen one with too little but plenty with questionably too much. Take a qtip and clean up around it if it bothers you, charging someone and making like you’ve done some great feat is stupid.

And the leads that were crooked, wha? That has absolutely nothing to do with jack squat. Fix it or whatever but don’t charge someone and it certainly won’t have any effect on shiznit. Oh, there’s some dust on this capacitor from the factory, I’ll get that off there cause other guys would leave that and that’s why people come to me. Stupid shit.

But still, somebody is sending him radios. He’s crazy with his pricing, you can’t charge somebody like that. You’re right, he waste enough time and you’ll have a big bill. And then what would you do?
 
They may be sending them but not in the quantities he was getting them.

He used to have a video every day about some 148 or 2000 with flashy lights and channel boards and hifi mods... TWO GRAND for a lot of these customers!

Now he works on $100 radios like the 980SSB and butchering them up by putting that little amp in them - which is fine - but cutting the input pad/match on the amp up so it's no longer properly matched and being overdriven.

At this point Cobra 148s and the 980SSB account for at least 90% of his business and he is lucky if he does a dozen of them a week right now.
He is "perpetually busy" but that's artificial scarcity at work.
 
TheRealPorkchop said:
4mm, would be case/lid screw size also? Got a length and thread pitch on that by chance?
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I misspoke - they're 3mm size, but that might change...

Screws.jpg

I had previously believed they were 4mm stuff...no, they are 3mm - the length of thread is their last number - since Metric, I presume Fine-thread - but what that is in mm I don't know...

Verified by another Parts list...
Screws1.jpg
 
There is merit to making an attempt to keep the board screws from loosening, but soldering them has got to be the most expensive option if you are charging by the hour.

There is a product called torque seal that is used in industry for this purpose.

It gets put on bolt heads so you can inspect them to see if they have loosened.

for small fasteners it is enough to hold them in place.

I use nail polish for this purpose because it is easily removable later.

it also only takes me about 10 minutes to do all the screws on a chassis including the ones on the front controls.

I do this on all radios i restore as cheap insurance. sounds like Timmy's insurance is at a premium.
LC
 
He is just padding the bill.
Whatever adds time to that counter which adds money to the bill is a-ok with him.

If a mechanic did the same shyster stuff that mechanic would be on the 6pm newscast.
 
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