[Elecraft] K1 missing parts - is this to be expected?

[Hisashi T Fujinaka]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Larry Makoski W2LJ wrote:

> When I built my K1 and again when I built my K2 there was not a single part 
> missing.  Nada, zip, zilch, zed, zero.  I had THOUGHT there were parts 
> missing in both kits.  It turned out that I had overlooked them or found them 
> to be in a place other than where I had expected them to be.

No matter what people say, there's no magic or mojo in these things.
People make mistakes, so if you can't find the parts, send an email to
Elecraft. I was missing several toroids and a couple of caps from my SSB
board and I had them replaced fairly quickly.

I defy anyone to go through their entire kit and just individually count
the parts, and then do it again and see if the counts match. There's
hundreds of little bits and that they got them most right is great. 100%
accuracy would mean checking, double checking, triple checking and then
having to pay that much extra for the human labor to do all that
checking. You want your K2 to cost twice as much? If so, have them ship
it to me, I'll check all the parts, and then I'll charge you my time for
getting all the parts right.

-- 
Hisashi T Fujinaka - htodd at twofifty.com
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