Yup, I still have mine from back in the late 60’s as a novice and use it every 
time I build a kit!

Jim / W6JHB

> On Dec 2, 2020, at 12:35 PM, K9MA <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> When assembling the KAT500 kit yesterday, I found it frustrating trying to 
> get the nuts started on the connector screws. Then I remembered assembling 
> Heathkits, like 50 years ago. Heathkit provided a little plastic tube thingy 
> for starting hex nuts. (I'm sure some of you other OF's remember them. They 
> were red.) I looked in the toolbox, and there were two of them! (They're 
> still red.) Given all the hex nuts in the KAT500 kit, if I hadn't already had 
> them, I'd have been glad to pay an extra 10 cents or so if one were included 
> with the kit.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Scott K9MA
> 
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> 
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