The puzzle begins - can I ever get it back together & working
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Drag the harness to the chassis and start
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A few false starts and I figured out a plan for threading it all
together
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Tie-wraps hold things in approximately the right location
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OK, I got this far and then remembered I needed to add the bottom plate!
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End of day 1 - mostly in the right location - some branches yet to
figure out.
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1/17/13 - Start re-installing components
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Observer/Supervisor
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Strip and tin all the wires
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Ready to begin
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Fan tray re-installed
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RHS components - these mount hanging down from the fan tray
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Solder leads, then mount upside down
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mounted
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RHS also has terminal strip for connections to AN/FRT-18 amplifier
section
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HV rectifier socket cleaning
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RH door wired
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Bottom deck components
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re-installing control relays
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LHS - terminal board, HV relays, and MV filament xfmr
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It took many tries to get all this stuff squeezed into place. install,
remove, re-route, re-install, repeat as necessary.
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1/31/13 Landmark of sorts, everything in the lower compartment but the
rectifiers
(and HV plate xfmr
and choke at the rear which will go in last)
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RHS power supply section
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LHS power supply section with voltage regulator, LV choke, LV caps,and
autoxfmr installed
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power supply section
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LH door
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RH door
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Slow but steady progress finishing the power supply compartment
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Rectifier mounting plate
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install and wire newly cleaned sockets
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Ditto the terminal strips and regulator section
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Before....
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....and after
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>>>>>>>>
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Completed power supply section (for now)
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Figuring out where the drawer wiring harnesses were routed.....
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Mod xfmr - 70 lbs
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Plate xfmr - 105 lbs
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Everything back in place - with a little wiring left to do at the bottom
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At last - Ready to start working on the drawers
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Big mistake - I didn't replace all these poorly crimped HV connectors when
I had the wiring harness out.
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Nooo, I waited until everything was re-installed before deciding to solder
on new connectors
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Some locations were easy to get to
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- and some of the terminals were MUCH more difficult to access.
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Dang! Leftovers - I wonder where these were supposed to go.........
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Corroded hardware that was replaced
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Still need to repair the meter glass
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My working environment
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