Let's end this thread for now. As a general note, we have used the exact same type of screw for all of our products for the past 11+ years with few reports of problems. I live within one mile of the coast her in California and never have seen any rust on our products. Both Wayne and i frequently use them outdoors for portable operation too.
Some time ago, a few our more tropical/high humidity users noted that the external case crews could rust in their environment. We queried a large number of our customers at that time and few saw this happen in normal operation, so we thought it was an infrequent event. To cover the extreme cases, we located stainless steel hardware and then had it custom coated by the manufacturer to match our black cases. That's what added the additional cost above what Jack quoted. We'll certainly look into this some more for the regular products as we do not want this to be an issue. 73, Eric WA6HHQ Elecraft moderator, among m other duties. (Must be a slow DX day today! ;-) www.elecraft.com ---- On 10/19/2010 10:21 AM, Giulio IW3HVB wrote: > I'm waiting for the "End of Thread" msg by Wayne.... > ______________________________________________________________ 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
