Frank, thanks:

- took a 2-3 inch peice of paper wrapped it rond the ferrite,
then wound ~50 turns ( tight spaced) round the paper.
( About ten feet of 26 gague wire.)

Taped it in place, the whole thing slides tightly up & down the ferrite.

Will go to Goodwill & pick up a radio tomorrow; - found the price goes up if
you say it fer parts; - maybe if I say I've fallen & found JESUS Price'll go
down
- In any case..
This being NYC, I'll bring bus spray & a plastic bag; spray the radio whilst in
the bag. Tye it up, put it in the trunk & drive on home.

Once home, will take the bag ouot to the lawn,
unwrap it,

Kill whatever staggers out

( - New York! New York! It's a wonderful town !!)

Then clean the radio with Paper towels & bring it inside.
Plan on disassembling it in the Apt house Basement.

then bringing the cleaned up parts ( Capacitor, radio's ferrite.) upstairs..

& THEN I'll try the procedure someone from the ferrite group sent to Elfa..
& modify as needed..
with a few tricks..
SHOULD work.. !

Dan


In article ,
"Frank Dresser" writes:


"CW" wrote in message
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Unless you don't have it then use magnet wire. You'll never know the
difference.


That's true. I have several radios with standard wire wrapped around
the ferrite rods. Usually when they use standard wire, the turns are
spaced widely enough to take up nearly the length of the rod. A wide
wire spacing, about twice the thickness of the wire should reduce losses
and increase the tuning frequency range, compared to close spaced wire.
In practice, the tuning range problem will probably be more noticable.
Just wrap a bunch of wire, spaced maybe 1/16 to 1/8 inch or so, over the
length of the rod. This probably won't tune to the top of the AM band.
Then remove turns until it tunes to the top when the cap is fully open.

Frank Dresser