Mark,
Re-reading that screw location - it may mate with a standoff - so you
may be able to remove the top cover and tighten the screw that fastens
the standoff to the main board. Easy if you have the basic K3, but a
bit more complex if you have the SubRX installed.
73,
Don W3FPR
Mark,
It certainly sounds like either the screw itself or the threads on the
K3 are stripped.
Do not take the dremel tool to it. Instead, use a thin tool (like the
point of a knife blade) to insert under the screwhead and pry it upwards
while turning it with a screwdriver. There is no captive hardware on
the other side.
Examine the screw carefully - if there is a place where the threads on
the screw are stripped, you should throw that screw away and request a
replacement from Elecraft ([email protected]), but if the threaded part
of the K3 enclosure is stripped, that is a more serious problem -
consult [email protected] for advice and assistance.
73,
Don W3FPR
Mark C. Killmon wrote:
Builders,
When removing the screws from the cabinet of my K3 to make the IF
sensitivity mod, and the one-wire receiver protection mod, I've run into a
show stopper.
The screw in the middle of the front-most bottom cover is just spinning in
place. This is a factory build, and all the screws let go with a loud BANG,
which is either expected from differential metal expansion/contraction, or
they were really torqued when they were installed. Anyway, the screw in
question never made any noise, it just gave resistance and spun in place,
like there's captive hardware on the other side that is just spinning. I
don't know if there's access to it if I remove the back-most bottom cover.
It looks like it would be hard to access from the top, without taking most
of the rig apart. That's not an attractive proposition.
I hate to take the Dremel tool to it.
73, Mark
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