It's called a Menda 35120 Nut Starter and is available from HMC Electronics for $1.80 Here is a link: http://www.hmcelectronics.com/cgi-bin/scripts/product/2240-0021/ Fits nut sizes #2 thru #6.
I still have two Heathkit nut starters from 40 years ago and they still work FB! Wouldn't be without one. 73, Frank - W6NEK Windy Dankoff KM5Q wrote: > > Start them with a Heathkit nut starter! It's a little plastic tube > just soft enough to stretch over the two main sizes of nuts. Makes it > SO much easier to start those little buggers. > > You'll need to find an Old Master who saved them from the good old > days. Get on his good side, and MAYBE he'll give you a nut starter he > saved from the good old days. > > Then, promise to save it for the next generation. > > Thanks Fred. > Windy KM5Q > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/K3-kit-builders-start-your-nuts-...-tp17031160p17032176.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.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
