Hi Bob, Yes, you may be right but K3 is a top of line radio with price tag over $2,000. A couple of stainless steel screws are not necessary damaging its profit margin but just make it more perfect.
I think Elecraft is not only just target the local market but also overseas market. My screws become rust well within the first year. I am not sure whether Hong Kong is classified as an extreme humid city. However, all my other gears, even $200 H/T, have never experienced rust problem on the screws. Naturally, it is not my intention to make any issue for just a couple of screws. It is merely just an experience share over the forum. I am pretty sure Elecraft is a nice company who will make the KPA500 in good physical and construction standard. Perhaps, the KPA500 will come with stainless steel screws ^-^ 73 Johnny VR2XMC ________________________________ 寄件人﹕ Bob Naumann <[email protected]> 收件人﹕ Sam Morgan <[email protected]>; [email protected] 傳送日期﹕ 2010/10/19 (二) 8:51:11 PM 主題： Re: [Elecraft] KPA 500 Blame whomever you want, but this economy is to blame for a lot of this. Companies are not willing to invest in inventory not being able to know what the future business climate is going to be like. Things like stainless steel hardware are in short supply and very expensive. 73, Bob W5OV P.S. My K3's screws don't have any rust and I've had it for almost 2 years. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sam Morgan Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 7:24 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KPA 500 makes sense to me maybe 1-3% of your targeted market lives in an environment that is so wet lets add $20.00 to the price of our produce for the other 97% of buyers...... that's the kind of marketing savvy that could bankrupted a company GB & 73 K5OAI Sam Morgan On 10/19/2010 7:08 AM, James Sarte wrote: > Sorry, but that sounds more like nickel and diming to me. For the amount of > money we spend on these rigs, I had hoped that Elecraft would have provided > replacement stainless screws for free. If a manufacturer knows that there's > a problem with a product, wouldn't you want them to correct it without > charging you? Just my 2 cents... > > 73 de James K2QI > > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 7:26 AM, Johnny Siu<[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello Ian, >> >> I am very sure that Elecraft is clever in choosing both packing and >> construction >> materials for their radio gears >> >> For example, the screws of K3 rust so easily that they now give you the >> option >> to spend US$19.9 to replace them with stainless steel screws. >> >> For a radio at the price range of effectively over $2,000, you are given >> the >> chance to option for better screws. >> >> 73 >> >> Johnny VR2XMC ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
