I notice in the new 2006 MFJ catalog there is listed several roller
inductors, turns counter and crank, among various sundry parts for
homebrewing. Their prices seem to be most resonable....wonder how good their
quality?
I am looking to procure a roller inductor, turns counter plus crank for a
homebrew ant tuner.

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"Denton" wrote:

I notice in the new 2006 MFJ catalog there is listed several roller
inductors, turns counter and crank, among various sundry parts for
homebrewing. Their prices seem to be most resonable....wonder how good their
quality?


Haven't seen that catalog so I don't know what quality of parts MFJ
offers these days. But I can tell you that I've had to repair my
MFJ-949B tuner a couple of times over the years. The rotor of one of the
variable capacitors was making intermittent contact with the wiping
contact and needed fixing. The inductor switch is a cheap-looking pot
metal thing that had a couple of intermittent positions and I wound up
replacing it with a better switch. I wasn't impressed with the quality
of those components. I hope they're using better parts these days.

--
Joe

MFJ has a dubious quality reputation from comments around these parts. They
make Ham quality stuff and you must expect that. I'm not saying it's bad,
just not gold plated and super high quality. Remember quality = $$.
(thought he converse isn't always true) My roller inductor developed an
intermittent after a few years and I had to solder one of the contacts -
hard to get to, but the thing works ok as far as I can tell.
I have an older one, I think 986, two knob "T". It has matched my 40M
dipole on 75!

73, Steve, K9DCI

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I notice in the new 2006 MFJ catalog there is listed several roller
inductors, turns counter and crank, among various sundry parts for
homebrewing. Their prices seem to be most resonable....wonder how good
their
quality?
I am looking to procure a roller inductor, turns counter plus crank for a
homebrew ant tuner.