Icom IC-F62D Disassembly

[tropiradio]

Hi, I need to open an IC-F62D radio that seems to have a broken solder joint at the power switch, just lightly touching the volume knob causes the radio to go off and back on, even tough volume knob feels tight and no play. Seems to be a similar issue as in XPR3000 series radios.

Problem is I am having a hard time to remove the slotted nut on the channel selector shaft even with the proper removal tool. It was extremely hard to loosen in the first place, which it never really fully did as it still feels kind of hard to turn. It started to come out normally (tight) but the nut reaches a point after about 2-3 anti-clockwise rotations where the thread seems to kind do a bit of jump and never finishes to come out completely. The nut still looks perfectly square on the shaft. Turning the nut clockwise does tighten it back normally without much effort.

The antenna connector also has the same type of slotted nut, and was also very tight, but came out without issues. The volume control shaft does not have any nut on it.

Anyone know what might be happening here with the nut on the channel selector not fully unwinding even tough it turns.

Was trying to find the service manual online for the F52/62D radios but no luck so far. Anyone have it?

Thanks in advance for any leads.

 

[kny2xb]

ICOM IC-F62D SERVICE MANUAL Pdf Download

View and Download Icom IC-F62D service manual online. UHF DIGITAL TRANSCEIVER. IC-F62D transceiver pdf manual download.

www.manualslib.com

 

[tropiradio]

Greg: thank you very much for the service manual link.

So the nut around the channel selector does not have to be removed to open the housing, and the nut holding the volume control/power switch is completely internal.

Issue was that volume/pwr sw control is connected to main board via a thin flex. The nut holding the volume control had loosened a bit allowing some movement of the control and flex during normal usage which eventually caused the connecting traces on the flex to break. Managed to repair the traces as there was not enough time to order a new control.

Hope this information might be useful to others, as I suspect this issue will become a prevalent problem with these radios.

 

[kny2xb]

You're welcome, I'm glad that you were able to diagnose & fix the problem

 

[tropiradio]

Greg, out of curiosity, did you by any chance recently upload this service manual to the Manualslib website? I am just wondering why this did not come up in my own web searches.

 

[kny2xb]

Greg, out of curiosity, did you by any chance recently upload this service manual to the Manualslib website? I am just wondering why this did not come up in my own web searches.

No I didn't

I don't know what search engine or engines that everyone uses

I used Qwant, I've been having good luck with it, better luck than with some other search engines

 

[tropiradio]

I've been using Duckduck and left Google behind years ago with its tracking and ever so often skewed results. Strangely just tried again "icom ic-f62d service manual" and this time Duck gave me a link to the manual on the first result. Oh well.

Have good one.