Givem hell, Dean!



On the coils, I've found that heating the coil form (heat gun is best
but solder iron if done carefully ) will sometimes melt the wax on the
coil form allowing the slug to turn.

If not available, I have on occasion drilled a hole in the PC board
bottom of the coil; sometimes getting access for the tool through the
other end of the coil will make the difference.

If you do crack the coil, I assume you know its pretty much worthless
for reliability and proper tuning after that. Worse case, try to dig up
some used coils from other gear and just drill out the old core and
install a new one.

Good luck


Ed WB6SAT