[Elecraft] Dumb mistakes I have made

[K4IA@aol.com]

Thought it might be interesting, humorous and educational to share a few of 
the bone head mistakes we have made building our K1/K2s.  I'll go first if 
you promise not to laugh (too hard).

The instructions say inventory the parts.  So, when I got my K1, that is just 
what I did.

First, I pulled all the resistors out of the tape and cleaned the residue off 
the leads. (Bonehead, just cut the leads.)

Then I put all the resistors in order by value so they would be easy to find. 
 Took forever, very frustrating and I couldn't figure out why they weren't in 
value order on the belt to begin with.  (Much later, I discovered they were 
in the order as needed for assembly.)

Can you top that?  BTW K1 #470 works just fine in spite of my making it a lot 
harder than it needed to be.

Radio K4IA
Craig Buck
Fredericksburg, Virginia USA
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K1 #470
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