{"id":6464,"date":"2025-07-11T20:13:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T10:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/07\/11\/how-many-of-you-guys-have-changed-the-clutch-on-a-heathkit-hw-101-or-similar-rig\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T12:36:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T02:36:16","slug":"how-many-of-you-guys-have-changed-the-clutch-on-a-heathkit-hw-101-or-similar-rig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/07\/11\/how-many-of-you-guys-have-changed-the-clutch-on-a-heathkit-hw-101-or-similar-rig\/","title":{"rendered":"How many of you guys have changed the clutch on a Heathkit HW-101 (or similar rig)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhYV5k0baQGhvjrZSNp4A-3SsL1VT67WEd2BCesLIBcT02hrLpmggYP5n2DQ6NcvB0Irdb7kSgjsy6zXZDLOWCwF2osSHv40qrgxE3OYFR3XpyXtIRtEgAnQQMtdWoTBY71GeKmSono8K5SllysJex8mAgtyN57rvvZcoTlCZCWC7OyKTcgWFY0WWvpePM\/s4032\/IMG_9907.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"3024\" data-original-width=\"4032\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_9907-1.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b>That circular thing on the right is the &#8220;Plastic Clutch&#8221; on the Heathkit HW-101. Mine dried out and shattered when I pushed the &#8220;Zero Set&#8221; button on the from ot the HW-101. I heard it crack. I cut out a piece of plastic of the right size. That replacement clutch has been in there for about 30 years now. <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b>I know of one other guy who has replaced the clutch on a HW-101 (Will, N5OLA). Let us know if you have done this too. Put a comment down below. <\/b><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That circular thing on the right is the &#8220;Plastic Clutch&#8221; on the Heathkit HW-101. Mine dried out and shattered when I pushed the &#8220;Zero Set&#8221; button on the from ot the HW-101. I heard it crack. I cut out a piece of plastic of the right size. That replacement clutch has been in there for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/07\/11\/how-many-of-you-guys-have-changed-the-clutch-on-a-heathkit-hw-101-or-similar-rig\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How many of you guys have changed the clutch on a Heathkit HW-101 (or similar rig)?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435,160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heathkit","category-hw-101"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6467,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6464\/revisions\/6467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}