Very nice! I worked for the GOVT as a tactical mil radio engineer. My father was in WWII and I was always fascinated with his recollections about how they did radio back then. I honestly love videos/info like your channel! Many thanks!
Jay, thank you for another fantastic video! I enjoyed seeing and hearing your progress on a daily basis and this video really brings it together, Another masterpiece!
still not sure what these were used for, catalogue says coast artillery, and AAA units, and was sposed to communicate with the SCR-593 warning set. but havent seen a TO&E, with those.
Ol Wayne is a gearhead and a professional broadcast engineer. We both grew up in the Texas Panhandle. Remember.. the top of the cylinder had an inch of free space and soaked in PB Blaster for a month! But, it was still tighter than ol Cooter Brown! The generator rotor was stuck on the shaft as well. Wayne simply took a steel rod and started tapping the rotor from the flywheel end... the shaft turned out to be hollow (which I did not realize). The tapping just loosened the corroded piston rings enough to free the piston and the rotor just eased itself off the shaft. Like I said, "find a friend who is smarter than you are!" Thanks for your comments Dave. 73
Hold on! I goofed! The shaft is NOT hollow! The rotor shaft is, of course, hollow! Wayne put a rod on the ROTOR end and tapped it out.. As the engine was not mounted in place, it was free to move from the kinetic force that loosened the rotor and the crankshaft moved enough to dislodge the rotor and knocked enough crud off the shot rings to free the piston. Should have thunk about it before my previous reply!!
All of what Jay said above, and we used a short (prolly 6" long) piece of 2x2 applied to the piston top with some light tapping with a hammer. That started the piston moving downward. Then grabbed flywheel/cooling fan and started rocking it back and forth. A couple minutes of that and the piston was freely (ish) moving up and down.
