A few months ago, I noticed my VFO knob on my Icom 7000 was catching on something as it rotated. It freaked me out but I fiddle with it to see why it was slowing down and almost stopping in one spot. It has four settings, very hard to turn, hard to turn, free wheeling, easy tune, and clicks. The individual clicks allow me to literally click 1 Hz at a time depending upon which of the settings I have the receiver set to. The more I fiddled with the knob, the worse I made it. Since the front panel comes completely off, I wondered if the knob would, too. I pulled and it popped right off. I figured I’d busted the radio for sure. I put the knob back on the shaft and adjusted it by pushing and pulling until it was set the right distance away from the panel. It has never done that again. I think I had bumped the knob once and it pushed it back on one side so it dragged on the knob as it rotated. Yes, you can set it to fixed position, too, but on my radio, that is accomplished by pressing the voice key and holding it down till it beeps. Then the knob does nothing even if you turn it.
Phil.
K0NX
> On Aug 7, 2015, at 9:02 PM, howard kaufman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Maybe, I think it is cat hair.
> Have to figure out how to get that knob off.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Jim Shaffer
> Sent: Friday, August 07, 2015 8:00 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: new worry
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> Howard, maybe you need to quit eating carmel corn when on the radio, grin.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Forst
> Sent: Friday, August 07, 2015 6:36 PM
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> Subject: Re: new worry
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> I dunno. When all the way to the right, it should make the knob tough
> to turn. All the way left, and there should be no friction.
>
> Obviously something else going on for you.
>
> 73, Steve KW3A
>
> On 8/7/2015 7:23 PM, howardkaufman wrote:
>> No I checked that. When it is to the right, I can't feel a change,
>> but to the left, there is a little tug every revolution of the dial.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: For blind ham radio operators
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>> On Behalf Of Steve Forst
>> Sent: Friday, August 07, 2015 5:03 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: new worry
>>
>> Did you maybe move the little friction thing under the knob that
>> makes it harder to turn?
>>
>> It should be full to the left for free spinning of the knob.
>>
>>
>> 73, Steve KW3A
>> On 8/7/2015 5:43 PM, howard kaufman wrote:
>>> All of a sudden, the tuning dial on my ts-590 gets a little sticky
>>> when tuning.
>>>
>>> It grabs through maybd 10 degrees on every turn. Any ideas?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Howard Kaufman MSW LCSW
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>>>
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