[CW] Speed-X 114-520 feet

[D.J.J. Ring, Jr.]

Hello Grant,

The bumpers - or rubber feet - are riveted on.

Most people replace the wobbly four bumpers with THREE rubber stick-on
bumpers from Amazon
<https://www.amazon.com/Self-Adhesive-Bumper-82-Piece-Spherical-Square/dp/B06XCLYL53/ref=sr_1_4>
.
https://www.amazon.com/Self-Adhesive-Bumper-82-Piece-Spherical-Square/dp/B06XCLYL53/ref=sr_1_4

2B Radio Parts also sells bumpers for this - but I don't know how he mounts
his.
https://2bradioparts.com/Les%20Logan%20Key%20Parts%20page16.html

Frank, W7IS is our resident expert on this bugs.  He usually chimes in with:

Les Logan used 4 feet on his keys and the 4 feet can cause the key to
wobble if they are not all perfectly level.

Most all speed keys come with 3 feet since they are self leveling.

So its odd Les Logan never caught onto it..

And your correct, removing the 4 old feet is difficult due to the rivets
freezing up.

So what I do is simply leave the 4 old feet in place and instead use 3 self
sticking on feet that are slightly higher..

You can find many sources for the self sticking feet off Ebay and Amazon.

They have an adhesive on the bottom.

I've done that on quite a few Les Logans and find its the best solution.
Plus you can pick up an entire sheet of the self adhesive rubber feet and
use them on other projects around the house!!!!


I do what Frank does on my Les Logan key (same key).

73
DR
N1EA


On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 9:22 AM, GRANT YOUNGMAN <ghyoungman at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I recently acquired a very nice E F Johnson114-520 Speed-X bug, which
> could benefit greatly from new feet.
>
> I went to unscrew the old ones and replace them this morning in what I
> thought would be an easy 5 minute job, only to realize that they appear to
> be staked on instead of being easily removable.  In any case, what I
> expected would be screw heads holding them on, don’t look like screw heads.
>
> Am I missing something simple?  Or is there no easy way to replace them
> other than to try and pop out the stakes.  I don’t want to damage anything.
>
> Thanks …
>
>
> Grant NQ5T
> K3 #2091, KX3 #8342
>
>
>
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