[Elecraft] Tuning knob Alternative

[Joseph Reed]

Agreed, the F-Dimp is all important.  And after all the hours spent adjusting the allen screws to eliminate any eccentricity of the tuning knob it does give the final touch.

I like the Elecraft knob.  Works fine, looks good, and isn't an additional cost to the kit.  Looking at my Yaesu and Icom rigs they would just be wrong.  Without the skirt a Drake C-Line knob might look nice.  But that would be so wrong in so many ways. (Drakes are to some of us what Collins are to others.)

Joe N9JR

----- Original Message ----
From: Doug Person <Doug at Northroutt.net>
To: Elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 4:07:13 PM
Subject: Re: Re : [Elecraft] Tuning knob Alternative


I agree with Chuck.  I have all the Yaesu knobs because I have all the 
Yaesu rigs.  The K2 knob with the finger dimple is excellent.  I think 
you need to be careful about the amount of pressure the knob has on the 
felt.  At first I had it to tight.  After a few tries I got excellent 
feel with no backlash.  It tunes very smoothly.  none of the Yaesu knobs 
seemed much better - although they do look nice.

Doug -- K0DXV

gehringc at charter.net wrote:
> I tried a couple of alternate tuning knobs on my K2.  
>
> I tired using the Knob from my Ten Tec Argo V, I think the shaft size was different or poor aesthetics, it was a while ago and I don't remember exactly, I just know that it did not work.
>
> Then I tried a FT 100 knob for a while and I needed to add extra felt behind the knob to keep it from being too sensitive.  I ordered the knob directly from Vertex Standard USA Customer service.  It worked nice, looked pretty, but it just kind of messed with my perfect Elecraft Mojo so I sold it.
>
> Finally I went back to my original K2 knob and added the Finger Dimple.    The pictures and description on the Elecraft web site do not do justice to this great little inexpensive addition.  The Finger Dimple is perfect, if anything it should come as a standard item with every K2. 
>
> 73 K2CG
> Chuck Gehring
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