The knurled thumb screws on my KXPD3 were hard to turn. One was OK but the other was misaligned. I thought it might be that the alignment of the screws might be out of tolerance or something. However, when checking how they lined up without the paddle's PC board in place, the screws fit perfectly and screwed in easily. Drilling out the two mounting holes nearest the KX3 in the KXPD3 PC board to 1/8" fixed the problem. It seems that some combination of alignment of the 4-pin connector and the PC board's mounting holes was just enough to torque the aluminum paddle hardware to slightly misalign the screws. YMMV.
Cheers and 73, Fred KE7X (And yes, a KE7X KX3 book is in process.) Fred Cady "The Elecraft K3: Design, Configuration and Operation" fcady at ieee dot org ______________________________________________________________ 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
