[Elecraft] solution to sliding paddles

[AJSOENKE at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/19/2007 7:03:38 P.M.  Pacific Daylight Time, 
rob at idiompress.com writes:
That stuff is sold as shelf  and drawer liner, and is available at just  
about everywhere kitchen  supplies are sold.  (Mine came from that mecca of  
capitalism,  Wal-Mart.)  It works great.  Having never learned how to use a   
bug, I don't smack my paddle around like some do; however, my Bencher  BY-2  
did tend to meander a few inches over a period of weeks.   With the rubber  
waffle-style shelf liner under the paddle, it might as  well be screwed  
down to the desktop.  I pushed the paddle to see  how much force was  
required to move it, and I had to push quite hard  to get it to move at  
all.  That rubber waffle-style shelf liner  stuff is really amazing.

Right on - you jogged my memory. One of the  enterprising hams in SBA cut up 
a piece of that and was handing it out at our  hamfest a couple years ago. It 
seems to have a very long life!!

Al  




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