[Yaesu] Yaesu repair and Fed Ex

Tue May 11 09:01:26 EDT 2010

How are you packing your rigs for shipment? I would at least surround the
rig with one or two inch thick blue styrofoam boards (you can get them as
wall insulation from places like Lowe's and saw them to size with a small
wood saw) place in a box then put that box in a bigger box with the same
styrofoam boards lining it. Peanuts, bubble wrap, and often, the original
boxes and inserts aren't good enough.
Put the rig in a plastic bag first and as always, back all the knobs up
against the front panel. You _always_ back all knobs to the front panel so
it takes the force of impact instead of the component shafts.
I'd go after the 1000ドル insurance and I agree with Eddie--if you have not
done so, set up a repair bench and start replacing your gear with old thru
hole or point to point wired tube or solid state ham gear and start learning
how to fix your gear yourself. I am in the process of doing that here.
 It's sort of a return to the ham radio of my youth when every ham I knew
had a bench and did his own repairs. The new gear is repairable but that is
increasingly taking special tools like soldering heat guns and the newest
chips are so hard to remove about all that can be done even by professional
repair techs is throw away the board and get a new one. This is one of the
reasons why I started buying vintage tube gear.
73
Rob
K5UJ
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 6:55 AM, Edward Swynar <gswynar at durham.net> wrote:
> Hi Ed,
>> I had something similar to what you're now experiencing happen to me
> recently with an Icom transceiver, & an "...expert" independent repairman
> on
> the west coast...
>> I paid for TWO TRIPS getting the transceiver there & back: the first time
> it
> returned to me with the main RF board on it only partially
> re-assembled---but the tekky swore it was "...operating PERFECTLY when it
> left the shop!" (yeah, right). The second time it came back the CW receive
> frequency was off by some TWO KILOHERTZ---and again, "...it was operating
> PERFECTLY when it left the shop!".
>> To add insult to injury, the rear sub-panel was caved-in by some 3/8" for a
> third of its length, as if the rig was dropped from about waist height to a
> concrete floor...but there was NO DAMAGE evident on the box.
>> The repair & shipping costs ALMOST approached what a decent used rig of
> this
> marque would have cost me---but instead, I'm stuck here with a non-working
> piece of junk.
>> So what'd I do...? I bought myself a good used set of tube-type DRAKE
> TWINS:
> if ANYTHING "goes" on either one of those classics, I can fix it myself,
> and
> avoid the hassles of both clumsy carriers and lying tekky "gurus"...I've
> tried "appliance operating", and I did NOT like it!!!
>> Just my 0ドル.02 worth...
>> ~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ
>>> ************************************
>> ---- Original Message -----
> From: "ED YEARY" <w4tey at bellsouth.net>
> To: <yaesu at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 9:26 PM
> Subject: [Yaesu] Yaesu repair and Fed Ex
>>> > I recently Fed exed an FT 1000 MP field to Yaesu repair in Ca. The
> autotuner was malfunctioning. When the radio arrived in Ca. Yaesu called me
> and said it was damaged in shipping. A guy named Ron said the front of the
> radio was pushed in and a claim needed to be filed. After filing a claim
> and
> several phone calls the radio wound up being shipped back to the office
> supply I shipped it from. Fed Ex says there is no visible damage. I called
> Ron back and he can't remember a thing. Doesn't Yaesu document damage when
> it occurs ? I have seen the radio and both VFOs are torn up. They will
> barely turn. They were perfect when they left my house. What the heck do I
> do now ? Neither Yaesu nor Fed Ex seem to want to help. I had a thousand
> dollars of insurance placed on the shipment. Advice ?
> >
> > Ed W4TEY
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