I have a TDP2 rotator (antennacraft/radioshack/philips).
It's making some ugly noise (uglier than usual) and when I took it down and removed the base plate, I noticed a hard chunk of grease, so I figure it's time to clean & repack the bearings & gears.
I thought I'd just have to remove the motor & a circlip and it would come right apart. This is not the case -- it's hanging on something. Now that removed the circlip, its internals are looser & a few ball bearings came out, so now I have to rebuild it...
I cannot figure out what it's hanging on ...
I can't imagine the rotor needs to be in a specific position in order to remove (in which case, if it got hung up by debris, it would be garbage....)
I don't want to whack it too hard as the case is just pot metal, unless that's really what it will take.
(fwiw: Mine was purchased thru philips, but their all the same. Philips support response to "is there a shop manual" was "we don't encourage anyone anywhere to repair them")
Thanks.
It's making some ugly noise (uglier than usual) and when I took it down and removed the base plate, I noticed a hard chunk of grease, so I figure it's time to clean & repack the bearings & gears.
I thought I'd just have to remove the motor & a circlip and it would come right apart. This is not the case -- it's hanging on something. Now that removed the circlip, its internals are looser & a few ball bearings came out, so now I have to rebuild it...
I cannot figure out what it's hanging on ...
I can't imagine the rotor needs to be in a specific position in order to remove (in which case, if it got hung up by debris, it would be garbage....)
I don't want to whack it too hard as the case is just pot metal, unless that's really what it will take.
(fwiw: Mine was purchased thru philips, but their all the same. Philips support response to "is there a shop manual" was "we don't encourage anyone anywhere to repair them")
Thanks.