2-33 Stars and Stripes Radio is Fixed

Not too bad. Your method helped. Heat a little and pull. Heat a little more then pull like hell. When the polymer starts to get shiny stop heating that area. I put the heat shrink on before the splice (ask me how many times I’ve screwed that up…) but the washer and nut to center the PTT switch could not be installed from the top of the button. Clip the splice, wash, rinse, repeat. It got done. Reinstalling the grip was also a question of heating and slipping on. For both procedures it is easy to seriously burn yourself on hot polymer. Rawhide gloves help.

Thanks also to Don for helping me find the heat gun and zip ties. You guys helped me get it done before the sun went down.

Cheers

Tim