Just a guess: But Elecraft probably does not manufacture the knobs (probably supplied by a vendor and it is they who selected "English" sized Allen screws. This not particularly unique in products I have recently bought (though a little irritating when you are working on them). Case in point: my wife and I decided to purchase some inexpensive ($200) bicycles for a little recreative exercise. The handle bar was out of alignment and required a 5mm Allen wrench while the seat clamp was English sized (Schwinn Bike). Fact of life in the USA, today, is the mix of the two standards. Even ran into this on my "Toy Auto" Tundra pickup ;-)
73, Ed - KL7UW ------------------------------ Message: 32 Date: Sun, 9 May 2010 08:47:38 +0000 From: David Dunn <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] [K3} Help, hex key for split knob To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I cannot imagine it would be hard to buy imperial measure Allen keys in USA ! Even in VK land where "standards" of measure are very dubious. (officially all metric) Our signposts in Kilometres, goods sold by the Kilogram, Timber by the metre, - but they still talk about 4 x 2's and 6 x 8 ft sheets of chipboard..... Now, go in the ironmongers for nuts and bolts and the odds are you will find them with BSW threads, a size now very difficult to get in England where they originated! I wonder why Elecraft used "inch" measure Allen screws?? when all the other threads in the K3 are metric.- Perhaps they had similar problems! 73 to all from David VK3DBD 73, Ed - KL7UW, WD2XSH/45 ====================================== BP40IQ 500 KHz - 10-GHz www.kl7uw.com EME: 144-600w, 432-100w, 1296-60w, 3400-fall 2010 DUBUS Magazine USA Rep [email protected] ====================================== ______________________________________________________________ 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
