David, G3TJP wrote: I'd been unhappy with the stiffness of my K2's rotary encoder for a while, so when a replacement unit was provided by Scott, I thought it was time for a makeover of my fully loaded K2/100.
----------------------------- Check that stiff encoder very carefully. It may be fine AFTER you carefully unwind some bits of the felt from the bearing and it'll be a FB spare. My old K2 developed that problem several months after I built it. Looking closely I could see some bits of the felt hairs caught in the C-ring and bearing. I carefully tugged gently on each hair with tweezers while turning the shaft in the direction needed to unwind each one and, after removing several of them suddenly the encoder ran free again. Then I used a bit of "superglue" seal the inside edge of the hole in the felt washer so other threads wouldn't get entangled and replaced it. I never had the problem again. Ron AC7AC _______________________________________________ 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
