That's something entirely new, Natan, and not normal for a K3. The pad between the knob and the front panel should be nothing but a soft felt washer, virtually noiseless as the knob turns.
Is there anything else there? If not, recommend that you drop an e-mail to K3support (at) Elecraft (dot) com. You'll get a quick response. 73, Ron AC7AC -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Natan Huffman Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 8:03 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Elecraft] noisy VFO's Hello All, Last Friday I took delivery of a new K3 along with a P3 and lots of accessories including Fred Cady's book on the K3. Only problem to date is "noisy" VFO knobs. The technique to lessen drag does decrease or eliminate the noise which sounds like fingernails dragged across a chalk board and I do find that noise most objectionable. Of course I can free myself of the noise by backing off the knobs but I'm left with no noise, and no drag at all. So my choices are no noise, or no drag. No drag leaves me with a surprisingly free turning VFO knobs that is problematical and proper drag leaves me with that horrible scraping which for me is simply intolerable. Has anyone come up with this same problem and has found proper mitigation solution? Thanks, Natan W6XR, C6AXR, VS6KR Freeville, NY ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ 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
