I ended up doing about like Dave sez below, with the modification that I threaded the wires through the lug holes before attaching the PC boards--then I screwed them in and pulled the excess wire through the lug holes with needle nose pliers, being careful not to tighten the wires so much that they contacted the housing. Soldering wasn't too bad with a drop of solder on a fine tip and the lugs (esp. the sleeve lug) bent into the middle of the cavity a bit.
Like Dave, I brilliantly connected mine backwards--i.e. ended up with a tip connected to the right paddle and ring connected to the left--hence dits from the right and dahs from the left. This I attribute to my being chirally challenged. But it is true, as Dave points out, that Figs. 5 (b) and (c) show the paddle "upside down" compared to how it will be attached to the rig for a rightie. A future manual revision might note in bold that Fig 5. (c) is "backwards" so other geniuses like me (and Dave, I guess) do not fall into the same trap. But then again, nothing beats actually reading the directions--duh... 73, Eric N0HHS -----Original Message----- From: David Toepfer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 9:31 PM To: Eric Ward; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KXPD1 assembly question 1) bend the tip lug in at about a 15 degree abgle 2) bend the wire so that it will fit through the hole and solder it in place with not a lot of solder 3) bend the tip lug back up some while pulling the wire up and bending it at the solder joint 4) only bend it back enough to ensure that it will not contact the aluminum housing and trim the excess wire 5) repeat the above procedure for the ring lug, making sure there is sufficient space around the ring lug wire where it threads through the channel from the other side of the housing Not that I didn't make any mistakes: I read the wire from the right connects to the tip lug but missed the fact that they said in the above illustration and assumed they meant as I would install it (as if everyone out there is a right'ie like me). So I wondered for a day why the paddle was running backward. So I had to do the procedure I outlined above again. :-) _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft You must subscribe to post. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, Unsub etc): http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft page: http://www.elecraft.com
