The fitting of the washer is indeed a trivial matter, Tom. It's on the inside of the front panel, so if it had to be chiseled off, the marks wouldn't show and I'm sufficiently competent to use the minimum amount of adhesive to hold it in place. I won't tighten down the nut on the front panel beyond finger tight because it would distort the panel and probably damage the panel coating, besides being quite unnecessary. A gap of a few thou is irrelevant to the washer's fitting and function, but a large gap, such as would remain if the washer was not in place, would potentially stress the DSP board unreasonably, as pointed out by Don. A rattling washer is a nuisance and stopping that by whatever means - adhesive, hotmelt, Blu-tak, chewing gum etc. is a positive contribution to the K3's usability.
This topic has gone beyond its sell by date and is now about as useful as QRM. 73 DaveL G3TJP Tom, N5GE wrote: I presume you considered that if there was ever a reason to remove the washer in the future, you may have to damage the front panel to remove it, and decided that was not an important issue. ______________________________________________________________ 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
