Problems with G-5000 tuner

[Houas07tc]

Recently my G-5000 tuner hasn't been able to lock in the left half of the tuner section. The signal meter is good but the tuning meter becomes very sensitive and there is crackling noise. Anyone knows what's wrong and how solve this?

 

[mattybass]

I'm having the same problem with my G-5050 receiver... I took my receiver in to have the main circuit repaired (wasn't powering on) but before that, the tuner hadn't worked at all. I put it out of my mind because I didn't really need it.

When I had the receiver repaired the guy also fixed the tuner and now I'm able to get stations, but it's EXTREMELY touchy and I only get a channel after lots of play.

 

[bobforapples]

Did you try and clean the tuner blades? If you haven't done that yet, blow them out with compressed air, and don't use any type of cleaner on them..... if none of that works the tuner may need aligned.

 

[Punker X]

Not really the blades that are the issue, its the ground tabs on the shaft. See the sticky in the tuner forum on how to clean a tuner. Should cure all these problems.

 

[Houas07tc]

Okay I got it working. After opening it and looking around, I decided to use control and contact cleaner on the FM muting button. Let it sit for a few minute and test it. Everything is back to normal. I hope this help some of you too.