Welcome to the cult, I mean....err kit building experience, a.k.a. Mojo. It is interesting to hear you talk about the initial overwhelming amount of parts. With my K2 I did an inventory, and broke many of the parts out into containers for each stage. It was a nice sense of accomplishment watching the parts disappearing, and peeking ahead to see that tests were going to be run.
I bought the K2 to have a quality CW radio that I could work on. I was blindsided by how fun the kit building experience was, and enjoyed it much more than I expected. - David Wilburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] K4DGW K2 S/N 5982 On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 10:38 +0000, Stewart Rolfe wrote: > Just finished putting K3 000145 together and as an Elecraft 'virgin' > wanted to pass on some thoughts. > > The kit quality quite simply is superb. It all went together so smoothly > and there was no pushing, bending, flexing necessary in order to get > things to fit; screw holes just lined up exactly first time. The few > 'gotchas' were always predicted and well documented and illustrated. > Occasionally some hardware seemed to be missing but was discovered > lurking (logically) in envelopes in other modules so remember to check > before emailing Aptos. > > Almost the only tool I used was the larger of the 2 cross-head > screwdrivers normally found in those little watchmaker kits; did every > screw in the kit and fitted exactly each screw head and no temptation to > over tighten. The fine tweezers came in handy later on for locating > screws in the tighter spots before screwing down. > > When the kit arrived it took my breath away because of the number of > modules and bags etc - I'd ordered the atu and 100w module in addition > as well as a couple of filters. They soon disappear though as everything > goes together, and it took 2 sessions of 3-4 hours each to get to the > initial (qrp) testing/alignment stage. I do have a bone to pick with > them though under trade descriptions as I did actually use my soldering > iron to solder the terminals for the DC connector so it wasn't a > completely 'no solder' experience.......! > > I just know the build quality is going to be a portent of the > performance quality..... > > 73, > > Stewart Rolfe, GW0ETF > _______________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Post to: [email protected] > You must be a subscriber to post to the list. > Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm > Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
