11 Set stuff

[cletrac (RIP)]

Mike, in North America you still buy points and a condenser for your older automotive distributor.
Here you always flip a toggle switch up for on but on the switchboard, up is off. I guess Aussies are upside down and Brits are backwards LOL
I'm debating over which of these two types of paper capacitors to use. Both are common on ebay.
My amp gauge came today. Now to mount the switches then do the wiring.

[Ron Pier]

Standard procedure here in UK is a switch is OFF when it's UP. According to USPS tracking, my gauges should arrive today. Ron

[Mike K]

I am going to a hamfest next weekend, I will keep an eye out for those meters. There are heaps of old meters at hamfests .

What Is the OD of the mount hole ?

[Ron Pier]

Mike as far as I can make out from lots of scaling and talking to Dave. The glass part of the gauge is 2 1/4" with an overall diameter for the whole instrument including the screw fixing bezel of around 3 1/2" and 1 1/2" deep. I'll know more when mine arrive, but I'm guessing a clearance hole in the panel of 2 1/4". Ron

[cletrac (RIP)]

The gauges take a 2 3/4" hole.
I went for the upright Sangamo capacitors. They look like they'll fit in the available space better. When I was a teenager I'd take a condenser and charge it up on a spark plug wire then toss it to somebody I didn't like and holler CATCH!!!! They give quite a jolt.
I got some more golf bag stuff off ebay. Now I'm pretty well down to just needing more aerial sections.
Those rings are called British stays but how are they used?

[Mike K]

Originally Posted by cletrac

The gauges take a 2 3/4" hole.
I went for the upright Sangamo capacitors. They look like they'll fit in the available space better. When I was a teenager I'd take a condenser and charge it up on a spark plug wire then toss it to somebody I didn't like and holler CATCH!!!! They give quite a jolt.
I got some more golf bag stuff off ebay. Now I'm pretty well down to just needing more aerial sections.
Those rings are called British stays but how are they used?

I dont think the rings are part of the kit. Never seen them before

[Chris Suslowicz]

Originally Posted by cletrac

The gauges take a 2 3/4" hole.
I went for the upright Sangamo capacitors. They look like they'll fit in the available space better. When I was a teenager I'd take a condenser and charge it up on a spark plug wire then toss it to somebody I didn't like and holler CATCH!!!! They give quite a jolt.
I got some more golf bag stuff off ebay. Now I'm pretty well down to just needing more aerial sections.
Those rings are called British stays but how are they used?

The rings are part of the stay assembly, basically the bit at the end that you anchor with the pins.

The complete stay is a square plate with central hole that goes over the thread on the aerial rod (and is held in place by the next rod or the F rod adapter. Attached to the four corners are 3-link chain insulators with about 40 feet of cord which passes through one of the rings and has a "stay tightener" on the end for adjusting the length.

See the photos towards the bottom of this page:

http://www.keithwatt.pwp.blueyonder....useum/ws22.htm

Chris.

[cletrac (RIP)]

That AWM video about the 11 set doesn't show those rings.
I seem to remember reading that they were British items. I don't know if the Canadian aerials used them or not. My NOS guy ropes didn't include any.