[Elecraft] KX1 battery holder

[Tom Hammond]

Ron's implementation has GOTTA be better than mine!At least unless  you 
blow out those threads too. <G>

Tom

At 10:47 PM 11/24/03, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
>I had an early pre-production case with no threads, so I drilled and 
>threaded it for a 4-40 flat head instead to a 2-56. Much, much stronger 
>(appx. Twice the circumference to hang onto the threads!).
>
>The flat head didn't interfere with the batteries and it was very and robust.
>
>Ron AC7AC
>
>-----Original Message-----
>
>
>
>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
>
>
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