[Elecraft] K2 build underway

[Nick Waterman]

Stephanie Maks wrote:
> After having so much fun building my K1, I decided to go for it and 
> ordered a K2, which arrived yesterday.

Congrats!

> it was a happy moment when the "Elecraft" came  up
> on the display.  Tonight I'll start the assembly stage 2.

Seeing "ELECrAFt" is neat, but receiving on 40m is even better. I picked
up someone 400km away using only half a spool of wound, untuned solder
as a makeshift antenna   :-)

> I have a question though about the fold-out stand thing. [...]
> Is this normal, or does that suggest I used too much force to get the 
> bail / feet installed?  Also, is there a trick to getting that installed?

I had to do quite a bit of loosening/tightening of screws until I was
happy that the whole stand was fairly straight and neither foot was
crooked. It still bends the whole bottom plate, as you describe,
particularly if the stand is "out", and indeed, it seems to straighten
out when it's properly screwed in with all 6 screws.

... so either it's normal, or mine's just as bad as yours   :-/

I did consider taking it apart, sticking the whole bar in a vice and
attempting to re-bend it a bit to make it a bit less brutal, but I've
been led to believe that this can ruin the fold-out action.

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"Nosey" Nick Waterman, G7RZQ, K2 #5209.
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