Alan Bloom wrote: > >The paint must also be removed from the sheet metal around each of the >points where it attaches to the 2D fasteners.
My recent P3 metalwork had much more paint underneath the spray masking tape than the 3-y-o K3 had. It needed a vicious stainless steel scratch pen to clean the P3 panels down to bare bright metal around the fixing points. >Also make sure all the chassis screws are tight. > This is very important in Elecraft's 'flat pack' style of construction. With no internal chassis and no continuous edge-to-edge bonding between panels, RF shielding and grounding is *critically* dependent on that relatively small number of panel-to-panel fixings. -- 73 from Ian GM3SEK http://www.ifwtech.co.uk/g3sek ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
