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Im slowly (and I mean slowly) trying to restore a Jaybeam TB3 3 element tri-bander that I bought earlier this year, its had a hard life but were getting there, I purchased some fine wire wool and some wetNdry sandpaper from Wilkinsons a couple of weeks ago, this seems to be doing the trick, the traps internally are in remarkably good condition, my big problem is the element tips, the tips of each element go into the tapered end of the outer traps, over the years these have fused/Cold Welded together so when I removed the Jubilee clip I was still unable to remove the element end, they are stuck solid and no amount of brute force works, so where does that leave me, well my next approach (tomorrow) is back to wilkinsons where WD40 is on offer at the moment, a couple of cans of that and lots of liberal amounts of it on the trap ends will hopefully yield some results, I intend to soak them in WD40 and leave them for a couple of days for it to work its magic (fingers crossed) I have a pic of one of the offending element ends here
I hope this works as the Beam is starting to clean up nicely and Im sure I can restore it to its former glory, Im currently using the driven element as a rotary dipole up only 15ft in the air and even thats worked a treat on its own, watch this space
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