My washer was quite loose on the build of K3 #474. The rattle bothered me on such an otherwise fine piece of engineering. Elecraft service said they had heard of it once before and that I probably didn't have the front panel seated properly. Then I began to read that many others had the problem on their K3's. So I added a dab of hot glue to the washer and it rattles no more.
Just FYI, when I snugged the nut down enough to stop the washer from rattling, I could see the front panel visibly bending under the force (fingers only). So I backed the washer off to where it was just snug (and the panel stopped bowing) and went with the hot glue fix. Terry, W0FM -----Original Message----- From: David Lankshear [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 7:53 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] [K3] Assembly question It was a bit loose on my K3 #1122, but I've seen it as a close fit on other K3's and a slack fit on a couple of others. Mine rattled when the internal speaker was used so I put a little bit of stuff called Blu-Tak on mine to stop it rattling. Subsequently, on removing the DSP from the front panel to make changes, I used a tiny dot of superglue to fix it to the front panel. After finger tightening the nut on the jack socket there's still a tiny gap but it doesn't rattle any more. 73 DaveL G3TJP ______________________________________________________________ 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
