Re: {Collins} Best non-metallic screwdriver for tuning 30L-1 input circuits

["Stanley M Miln" <k6rmr@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

 Hi Rick
The Blade can be metal but the tool itself should
be Plastic. You can tell it the tool is causing a
Problem. When you take the tool out after you
finish tunning the slug and everything changes
it is the tool causing the problem.
                 Stan K6RMR

> Once again, a question that used to be answered by walking into the 
> nearest Radio Shack... no more :-( ...
>
> Looking for suggestions for the best non-metallic screwdriver to use on 
> the input tuning slugs for the 30L-1.  I see that the slots are the full 
> diameter of the slugs and quite wide, so that one of those dinky little 
> tuning tools is unlikely to work well.  I'd like to find the correct tool 
> to use so I can have a chance of perhaps not rounding off the slots in the 
> slugs.
>
> It's hard to figure out from pictures on websites whether a tool is 
> appropriate, but I do see an L&M 8195 GC 
> (http://www.landmelectronics.com/product.cfm/28643/) that looks like it 
> might work... I'm assuming the 1/32" dimension they show is the thickness 
> of the blade, but of course no way to see how wide the blade is. 
> Everything else L&M has seems way, way too small.
>
> A blade 1/4" wide by 1/16" thick would be ideal.
>
> Looks like MCM Electronics might have something but their website is 
> seriously broken and I can't access anything of any detail... I get a 
> screen that tells me "Try deleting all your cookies"... yeah, I'm going to 
> just hop right on that... :-(
>
> Thanks...
>
> Rick WA1RKT
> Londonderry, NH
> Catch me on 14.300 MHz Intercon / MMSN most days
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