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Subject:Re: TOTALLY RESOLVED: Big problem with engine not running - please help now!
From:David Beierl
Date:Mon, 27 May 2002 22:15:49 -0400
At 08:25 PM 5/27/2002, Marshall wrote:
>I sprayed contact cleaner on the wiper surface, the commutator of the wiper
>(key step), sprayed the connectors and unkinked a wire inside the afm
>itself.

Glad you fixed it -- for next time it's a good idea to find the problem
first and *then* fix it, that way you know what you did.

On AFMs I've seen, the carbon-button rotating contact has been bypassed
with a flexible wire -- is that not present on yours?

d

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