About 1000 of the knobs were maufactured improperly, which has since been corrected. Eric told me at Dayton that future knobs will have a glass additive in them so that they will be virtually indestructible.
Email parts at Elecraft and they will promptly send replacements. 73, Lou, W0FK Duker wrote: > > Just received (5/5/09) my K3, serial #02969 and both the AF and RF gain > knobs were cracked. After few turns of the knobs (spin on the control > shaft) they no longer would increase or decrease levels. Called > Elecraft...immediately said new control knobs would be in the mail. As > other have commented the knobs appear flemsy and very light duty. > Hopefully Elecraft will take corrective action. Anyone find a suitable > replacement? Thanks for your comments...K2HDU...Ken > ----- St. Louis, MO K3 #2513 -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Broken-K3-Knobs-tp2913132p2914832.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.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
