Had teh same happen to me two days ago. I unscrewed the other half cover and secured the standoff with pliers. It is possible that my screw was too long. Ignacy
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 > > www.k4so.com > > www.picasaweb.com/kfourso > > kfourso.googlepages.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 > > -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/K3-bottom-cover-screw-spinning-in-place-tp3929077p3929568.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
