one interesting issue is that there are a lot of corroded connections and switch contacts. this machine has less than 7k hours on it and it has sat in storage for 40 years.
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one interesting issue is that there are a lot of corroded connections and switch contacts. this machine has less than 7k hours on it and it has sat in storage for 40 years. 11 comments
here are two special tools i used to work on the machine. the one with the black handle is a contact burnisher. it removes oxides and corrosion from switch contacts without damaging the plating layer (unlike sandpaper). the other tool is a switch adjuster. you slide it over the metal contact tongue and twist it to adjust the alignment. @tubetime oh wow I haven’t heard of a contact burnished (vs high-grit sandpaper). I looked up a little info on them and sounds like it’s the same idea as sandpaper though? You can still scrape through plating past the oxidation? What am I missing, is the burnished just a lot more gentle than even 2000 or 4000-grit sandpaper? So maybe you could damage plating but unlikely? Or a totally different sense of all this? @zackstern yes sandpaper tends to remove too much, too quickly. i guess you could use a fine grit, but a burnisher is easier to manipulate between the contacts. @tubetime how do you know how many hours it has? Is there a counter, like on an airplane engine? |
being electromechanical, it's full of a lot of relays, steppers, and other such mechanisms.
the schematic is a classic example of "ladder logic." the sides of the ladder are the power rails (in this case, 24VAC) and the "rungs" are individual control circuits, typically a relay coil on the left and a set of contacts on the right that, when properly engaged, turn on that relay.