My newly acquired K3 makes this VFO noise as well for the VFO A knob. It is only annoying when I have the headphones off.
Keith Sent from my iPhone please excuse typos On Dec 13, 2011, at 8:28 AM, "Ron D'Eau Claire" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
