tinyclark

Yea, and I'm sure it's in writing somewhere, in someone's desk, but he died 20 years ago. Good idea to use epoxy, but back then, they may not have had the two part poly type they use today. But, I don't think our German friend was talking about Talons. They keep getting old E's in to replace the AWADS birds at Ramstein, and they are coming in with both color radomes. The gray radomes have a mist coat over the poly coating is all. Wiedersehen, Phantom. Bitte Ein Bit!! And if it ain't broke, keep fixin' it 'til it is broke.

Sorry, my bad. 1C-130A-23- Any anti-static and rain-erosion coating on radomes and antennas shall be performed per TO 1-1-24. MIL-C-83231, Type II, Class A or B coating shall be used. Mil-C-83231A, superseded by SAE-AMS-C-83231; Class B, Polyurethane prepolymers which are dependent on moisture of high relative humidity for curing. Type I- Rain erosion resistant coating. Type II- Antistatic rain erosion reslstant coatIng. The class B, type II coating kit shall consist of all the components required for the class B, type I kit plus the antistatic polyurethane vehicle and the catalyst when applicable.

My best trips were to Helenikon AB, Greece, and staying in Glyfada.

All I'm going to say is that the black coating is a urethane rain erosion coating.

pjvr99, He already swapped out the retriever, that pretty much takes that motor out of the picture. Circuit breakers and fuses are there to protect the wiring, not the component. I don't think it's a supply issue. Physically check the power wires from the retrievers to the fuses. There could be a chafed wire along the way.

What year model is this aircraft? I'll look at it again on Monday, but I'm not seeing anything as a culprit. Tell them to quit bumping it.

Never heard of it happening before, but I'm a pointy head. Are both of them doing it? I'm more inclined to go with the retriever itself, but you may have changed it (them) out already. I am also assuming you checked/cleaned the ground for the retriever.

You mean the valve housing? There\'s a handle for that, HS5777 listed in the old B-2-11. I see no mention of a sling anywhere, or any lone procedure for removing the pump housing by itself.

There is a whole lavatory that you could put on cargo aircraft referred to above, NSN 4510-01-080-5922. But I doubt that is what you are looking for. [img size=552]http://www.herkybirds.com/images/fbfiles/images/portable_lav.JPG

What they need to do is modify the level trasmitter so it doesn\'t come on unless it\'s 4 quarts low, or just disable it. There i go with that crazy talk again...

You know, back that long ago in Germany, crew chiefs took the Radome off for us, so I don\'t remember what was used. We had a stand/dolly at Pope, the \'Dorf and Ramstein.

I have the drawing for the regular C130 radome sling. Maybe with a little modification, you can make it fit yours. Just let me know, I\'ll need a good email address, so message me.

It appears the problem may be fixed. The guys at the Rock found a loose ground lug coming off of Pin A on the small plug on the N-1 compass ME-1 amp. Without the ground, the 26 VAC that comes from the ECA (shown in the side left of the previous diagram) that feeds pin B of that same connector on the ME-1 amp, won\'t supply voltage across the synchro to send a compass signal to the RADAR. Hoo-rah to thorough technicians.

I\'ll buy you a Bit the next time I see you.

Anyone know how many times they did the C130 landing and take off on the Forrestal and if there was any mechanical assistance?

I never went on a night mission in Greece with the APQ122-V8, and I sure wouldn\'t with the 241. As usual, my hat\'s off to the Talon Drivers. We didn\'t have NVG\'s back then either.

NSN is 5985-00-757-8981, p/n 5-88154-4. They are XB3, and will make some nice beer cans. Wow, I was impressed. They must be about 12 feet long, and have a mount for the coupler inside. AC-130U? Don\'t they have the HF antenna rods in the L.E. of the tail like the H3s?

I would call that a drastic hardware change, with the addition of a vertical antenna drive section.

I\'d be more than happy to take one off you hands. They won\'t be of any good to anyone else.

I just don\'t see how you can do TF with an antenna that only sweeps side to side, and not that fast either, unless they changed some hardware along with the software on the 241.

Ice and water don\'t pose much of a problem for X-band frequencies, 10GHz range. The reason the glycol tanks were needed for the AWADS and Talon 1 was the Ka-band PGM, 34GHz.

Send me a good e-mail address. Electricians are fairies? Hmmmmmm, I won\'t ask what nav/RADAR techs are then. All I know is we do with higher frequency.

You want main and/or essential, and for what year model?

Sorry natops, but it has to be a wiring problem on the Nav display side. I\'m sure they swapped the power supply, they just didn\'t say. You are correct that it is the only non-common component, but for the most part, if an APN59 component is bad, it stays bad 100% of the time. Pretty much over the years, I\'ve found that bad wire connections are responsible for a very large majority of intermittent problems like this. In the diagram, you\'ve highlighted only one synchro input. We don\'t know if the pilot\'s works in STAB or REL, or at all. They can\'t seem to get the aircrew to help, and we can\'t here at Moody either. Hell, it\'s a miracle if they do a requested in-flight op check the first or second flight. The only thing I can suggest is taking apart all the connectors where the wires run. Only problem with that is that you are screwing around with wires that were soldered 40 some odd years ago, and the possibility of breaking more is great. Seeing the returns will tell you the antenna is rotating as well. But, the HDG MKR flash is controlled by a microswitch on a huge cam. If it flashes, the antenna has to be rotating.

EClark wrote: Not that smart, just been doing it for 34 years. I was a 32871 when I got out. That was Airborne Navigation System Repairman. I don\'t know what that AFSC is now. I\'ve been a civilian for many years. I have my info in my profile. APN59 was MY bench at my first base. They usually chained a big guy to that mock-up so moving the antenna and R/T was no problem.