[Elecraft] KX1 battery holder

[Tom Hammond]

Hi Norm:

At 11:55 AM 11/24/03, Norm Havercroft wrote:
>I just managed to strip out one of the screws used to hold down a battery 
>holder in my KX1 while doing a battery change.  Any ideas on a fix would 
>be appreciated.  Thanks.

I did that on SEVERAL of those holes when I built Field Test s/n 00007.

What I did was to REMOVE all screws and replace them with slightly longer 
ones WITH NUTS, and inserted the screws from the BOTTOM of the case, 
allowing the holes in the battery holder to 'secure' the nuts. Worked well 
EXCEPT that I had a bit of screw thread sticking out of the nuts, and it 
pierced the insulation of one (or more) batteries, rendering them out of 
order until I found the problem.

To fix THAT problem, I first cut each screw short enough that none of it 
protruded thru the nut, so it couldn't stick up, and I also put a piece of 
cardboard (actually a product called 'fish paper', available at motor 
rewinding shops, actually a great product to have on hand in ANY builder's 
shack) down in the bottom of the battery holder, covering each nut. The 
fish paper is VERY (extremely) tough and there's no chance at all that 
anything's gonna punch through it into the battery insulation.

73,

Tom Hammond   N0SS