Hi Folks:
At 11:44 AM 1/22/05, Bruce McLaughlin wrote:
This had to be one of the most frustrating steps involved in building my
K2/100! Even resort to uttering mighty oaths did not appreciably help,
although, that did scare the cat out from under the work bench.
I finally reported to using a Quickgrip hand vise BUT . . . be VERY
CAREFUL if you do that. It is very easy to use too much force and bend
the bail to the point where it is too loose and then won't stay up. If
you use this method, take it slowly, carefully and with only minimum
increments of pressure until the ends of the bail will slip into the
feet. I'm not suggesting this is the best way of doing it but after
trying various other suggestions, it seemed to work best for me.
I guess I should relate the method I used (long ago) to get my tilt bail
installed... it still works today, and might make things a bit easy for
others...
The big problem I think we all seem to have is that the screws are too darn
short to allow easy installation... so... USE LONGER ONES... at least until
you get things tightened down the first time. Once you have the bail in
place and the screws tightened down, start replacing them, one-by-one, with
screws of the proper length!!! Even if you have to find a few 'spare' 3/4"
4-40 screws, it's worth the small added effort and NOT having to let loose
with all the invectives I first found when I was doing my K2... It wasn't
until I built my K1 that I realized how easy things became once I used the
longer screws at the start.
73,
Tom N0SS
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