Ron, You need only some kind of spacers that are the thickness of 2 PC boards stacked one upon the other. While it is convenient to have the proper spacers that fit over the leads of the backlight assembly, that is not necessary. Find two pieces the thickness of the PC board material used by Elecraft - the switch spacing tool is one thickness - find something (anything, even popsicle sticks or matchsticks!) that matches it. Use that to hold the backlight assembly above the front panel board while you solder the leads on one end of the backlight assembly, then move the same stack to the other end and solder those leads - job done, remove the spacing tool and proceed with the assembly.
Do be careful to obtain the correct size for whatever spacing tool you improvise. If the backlight assembly is not spaced the correct distance from the board, then the LCD will not fit correctly, and you may have interference problems when you attach the front panel metalwork. 73, Don W3FPR On 6/16/2011 11:47 PM, R Thompson wrote: > While assembling my new K2, I've lost some of the LED backlight > spacers that are broken off of the Spacer Set PC board. Ref. Figure 5-1 > on page 23 of the assembly manual. > > I don't see where the LED backlight spacers are used, are they? If > so I should order a replacement. > > Ron VE8RT > ______________________________________________________________ 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
