C-clips

It sure helps if you have 3 hands when using this method ;-)

Al, W8UT

Incidentally, I've discovered a pretty good way to remove those C rings.
There are several of them on the gear train of a direlict Hammarlund
SP-600 I'm restoring now. Description follows:

Get two pairs of small needlenose pliers. Ideally, these should be the
kind that are somewhat flat on the ends rather than pointy.

Orient the C ring so that each end of the "C" is pointed towards the
bottom (like an inverted U)

Position the first pair of needlenose so that one tip is resting on the
end of the shaft, toward the top, and the other tip is resting on the
left end of the C ring.

Position the second pair of needlenose so that one tip is resting on the
end of the shaft, toward the top, and the other tip is resting on the
right end of the C ring.

Now, carefully apply a gentle squeezing to the handles of both pairs of
needlenose pliers simultaneously, and the C ring will begin to spread.
When it is about halfway off, you can then insert a small screwdriver
and gently pry the C ring the rest of the way off. Be careful not to
score the shaft.

To re-install a C ring you have removed, simply place the spread-open C
ring back on the shaft, and then take a pair of long nose pliers and
squeeze the edges of the ring until it closes as much as it can on the
shaft. Voila!

-Scott

Al Parker wrote:
C-clips

It sure helps if you have 3 hands when using this method ;-)

Al, W8UT

Three hands not required. I can get one of these rings off in about two
seconds using the described method, with two hands, no problem.

I have seen the "official" tool that was originally used to
attach/remove these rings, and it is a fairly complicated
gizmo....Probably unobtainable unless special-ordered. With that tool,
it's a one-handed job.

-Scott




--
DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE AT THE EMAIL ADDRESS ABOVE!
Instead, go to the following web page to get my real email address:
http://member.newsguy.com/~polezi/scottsaddy.htm
(This has been done because I am sick of SPAMMERS making my email unusable)

Need a schematic? check out the Schematic Bank at:
http://techpreservation.dyndns.org/schematics/

Archive of alt.binaries.pictures.radio binary postings:
http://techpreservation.dyndns.org/abpr/

"Scott W. Harvey" wrote in message
...
Al Parker wrote:
C-clips

It sure helps if you have 3 hands when using this method ;-)

Al, W8UT

Three hands not required. I can get one of these rings off in about two
seconds using the described method, with two hands, no problem.

I have seen the "official" tool that was originally used to
attach/remove these rings, and it is a fairly complicated
gizmo....Probably unobtainable unless special-ordered. With that tool,
it's a one-handed job.

-Scott

It's sorta like those plastic Heyco cord strain reliefs that pinch down on
the cable, and then you push it thru a double D hole in the chassis. They
are a b@@ch to put in with pliers, but with the heyco tool, it's a simple
one handed job.
Regards,
Tom/

In article , "Scott W. Harvey"
writes:

I have seen the "official" tool that was originally used to
attach/remove these rings, and it is a fairly complicated
gizmo....Probably unobtainable unless special-ordered. With that tool,
it's a one-handed job.

If the end tabs of the C-ring each have a hole, then the official tool is
pretty simple. I have a couple of those tools. Unforch, they are "Hong Kong
Hardware" quality tools, and so it's a one-handed job, but very hard on the
throat from the constant profanity needed to "cheer the team" to success.

Maybe you are talking about a larger version of the simple rings, with no tabs,
that hold pot shafts into a pot, for example. Those would require two pliers.
73, Mike K.

Oscar loves trash, but hates Spam! Delete him to reply to me.