[Elecraft] K2: Tilt Bail Installation Question

[w6fvi]

Or, you could try another more extreme approach like I did and BEND the bail 
to reduce it's overall length and so make it install more easily.  It also 
takes less pressure to raise/lower it.  Will this make the K2 subject to 
falling down flat from it's raised position during normal use?  Dunno, as I 
am not finished building mine, yet.

Brian - W6FVI

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "W3FPR - Don Wilhelm" <w3fpr at earthlink.net>
To: "MikeH" <nr7f at att.net>; <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 6:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K2: Tilt Bail Installation Question


> Mike,
>
> A goodly amount of force is normal.  It is often difficult to hold the 
> bail and foot still and straight enough to get the proper screws into the 
> holes. I temporarily use the longest black screws that you have in the K2 
> kit (the ones that will be used to mount the final transistors) - use just 
> the long screw and a nut, you can put enough force on the bail and foot to 
> insert the long screw at an angle and start the nut on it.  Then that 
> screw can be tightened enough to get the foot at a better angle - once you 
> have 2 temporary screws in that way, you can tighten them and then remove 
> one at a time and put the proper mounting screws in with their 
> lockwashers.  It takes more time to tell about it than to do it.
>
> 73,
> Don W3FPR
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
>
> I'm currently building my K2, and have come to the tilt bail installation 
> part. I must be missing something, because the force required to compress 
> the tilt bail between the two rubber feet seems very excessive. To make 
> the bail fit between to feet will require A LOT of force.
>
> Is this normal? Whenever I have to really force something when building, 
> my first thought is that something is not right....although I really don't 
> see how anything could be wrong here. I appreciate any feedback.
>
> Mike Hagey/NR7F
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