[Elecraft] Unable to mate front panel to FP board due to mic connector bead size

Sat May 24 21:33:07 2003

    Guess I got lucky. When I read the original message I was about 3 steps 
away  from the first time fitting of my front panel on my new SN 3504 - I 
checked it straightaway!. But mine is fine. Thank goodness. The K2 has been 
the best engineered kit I have ever seen. And from what I can tell, the 
finished product is well designed to be worked on- something that as an ET 
with 23 years experience I have really learned to appreciate.
    BTW, as far as soldering irons go, I'd like to mention that I just got 
a Weller WESD51 and it's a dream come true. I'm building the kit with an 
ETA tip with Kester 63/37 and the temp set on 650. Works like a charm.
                                         Michael Bowles
At 04:59 PM 5/24/2003 -0700, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
>There were several messages on this subject recently. As I understood it,
>Elecraft got in a shipment of mis-punched panels and some of them got sent
>out in kits before the issue was discovered.
>
>Contact Elecraft ([email protected]). You timing isn't so good, Arnd,
>since they have shut down for the holiday. They should respond Tuesday.
>
>Ron AC7AC
>K2 # 1289
>
>-----Original Message-----
>I'm just in the process of building K2 #3500 and I encountered a problem
>during mating the front panel to the front panel board:
>
>It is not possible to fully mate both parts because the microphone
>connector bead has an outer diameter of  approx. 6/8" (18.5 mm) and the
>front panel microphone connector hole has an inner diameter of approx.
>11/16" (17 mm). Anybody encountered this problem yet, is it a known
>problem and what is the solution?
>
>Vy 73, Arnd
>
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