Jack, If you stripped out the allen wrench, you were applying more force than is necessary, and excessive force may be the reason some of the newer knobs are cracking (that is just a guess).
73, Don W3FPR Jack Brabham wrote: > Tim, > > I had a similar experience assembling #4169 a few weeks ago. Unfortunately > my stack of assorted allen wrenches didn't include any that small. > > My work around was to grind off the "stripped" portion of the cheesy allen > wrench each time it stripped. > > ______________________________________________________________ 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
