Have to admit that I was a bit lucky that this solution was possible at all. I've seen cases where flywheels were much more damaged than mine. Also, I didn't have to replace the grippy material, which was surprising, because that's the part which usually completely breaks.
0:23 - wow, yeah you have... almost looks like a different device than last time! :D 2:45 - interesting to hear them called condensers... I guess that was the original term, and is still used in some contexts (including other languages)... perhaps including this one? (To me, I'd call them capacitors, a term which I think I've also heard you use (a yes... 11m17s into the prior video), so perhaps you're using this just for the adjustable ones?) Anyway, no complaints, just interesting! [whole big chunk, incl. 8:21] - wow, that flywheel thing is so cool. The clutch activation, the fork, and just that a control knob has a flywheel... wow. That must feel so nice to tune, compared to some modern rotary encoder or something. :) 8:40 - ok, I see what you meant in that other comment - a whole lot of circuitry without circuit boards! Fascinating. 12:33 - I can't speak to whether it's original or not, but I can see that this part was clearly cast into a mold -- you can see sprue marks (e.g. at 12:38). So, not something done on a lathe, though... one would think the mold would be made to be fairly round... one would think! (Unless it's deliberately oblong, for some reason??!?) Here's hoping it's not Grundig's fault. ;) Very cool stuff. Glad I (somehow) found you. :)
"Condenser" is basically an just old term for a capacitor. It's still used today in the context of condenser microphones and (in my experience) also for tuning capacitors. So I use them interchangeably. After I made this video I realized why the flywheel is oblong. It's probably because there's a tube really close to it and it has been sitting stationary in the same position for many years. So it's probably just deformed because of the heat generated by that tube. Thanks for your nice comments!
Nice solution for the fly wheel.
Have to admit that I was a bit lucky that this solution was possible at all. I've seen cases where flywheels were much more damaged than mine. Also, I didn't have to replace the grippy material, which was surprising, because that's the part which usually completely breaks.
0:23 - wow, yeah you have... almost looks like a different device than last time! :D
2:45 - interesting to hear them called condensers... I guess that was the original term, and is still used in some contexts (including other languages)... perhaps including this one? (To me, I'd call them capacitors, a term which I think I've also heard you use (a yes... 11m17s into the prior video), so perhaps you're using this just for the adjustable ones?) Anyway, no complaints, just interesting!
[whole big chunk, incl. 8:21] - wow, that flywheel thing is so cool. The clutch activation, the fork, and just that a control knob has a flywheel... wow. That must feel so nice to tune, compared to some modern rotary encoder or something. :)
8:40 - ok, I see what you meant in that other comment - a whole lot of circuitry without circuit boards! Fascinating.
12:33 - I can't speak to whether it's original or not, but I can see that this part was clearly cast into a mold -- you can see sprue marks (e.g. at 12:38). So, not something done on a lathe, though... one would think the mold would be made to be fairly round... one would think! (Unless it's deliberately oblong, for some reason??!?) Here's hoping it's not Grundig's fault. ;)
Very cool stuff. Glad I (somehow) found you. :)
"Condenser" is basically an just old term for a capacitor. It's still used today in the context of condenser microphones and (in my experience) also for tuning capacitors. So I use them interchangeably.
After I made this video I realized why the flywheel is oblong. It's probably because there's a tube really close to it and it has been sitting stationary in the same position for many years. So it's probably just deformed because of the heat generated by that tube.
Thanks for your nice comments!