A reasonable alternative can be made with a pencil or dowel stock and some non-adhesive shrink tubing.
— Rob N9DTT Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Wednesday, December 2, 2020 2:53 PM, KENT TRIMBLE <[email protected]> wrote: > That's been suggested to Elecraft many times over the past 21 years. > > Wonder if anyone still makes them. > > My three sleep in their own bin! > > 73, > > Kent K9ZTV > > On 12/2/2020 2:35 PM, K9MA 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 > > -- > > This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. > https://www.avg.com > > 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 > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
