My wife provided me with some smoother felt which I cut into washers. It is a lot quieter than the horse hair felt washers supplied.
73 Stewart G3RXQ On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 08:55:54 -0700, Gary D Krause wrote: > My just built K3 also makes the same noise. It's the felt washer rubbing > against the back of the knob. I was tempted to push the washer down around > the nut against the front panel but, the manual isn't exactly clear as the > whether it should be applied this way. I laid the felt washer on top of the > nut since the hole is the middle of the washer isn't big enough to go over the > nut. Is the felt washer suppose to go around the nut? > > Gary, N7HTS > > > On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 08:40:21 -0800 > Keith Heimbold <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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 > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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
