[Elecraft]Re: A happy K2 post - for a change......

[David Lankshear]

First of all, apologies for the loooong lines in my earlier post.  I wrote the item using a wordprocessor then cut and 
pasted it into an email window.

Thanks for the suggestions from Ron, Tom and Steve re. the felt washer fibres, but it was absolutely and definitely 
NOT that.

The original encoder was so stiff the felt washer wasn't put to use and the first thing I checked was where the shaft 
rotated in the body.  I've built other K2's and the encoder in mine was far stiffer to rotate, straight out of the bag,
 than the others.  I fitted it and used it in the hope that it would free up after a while but it didn't.  

Neal mailed me off-list to ask what RTFM meant.  It's such a common expression here in the UK, that it 
didn't occur to me that it might be unknown elsewhere.  Its approximate translation, although other words are
sometimes substituted for the one starting with "f", is "Read the flipping manual".   YMMV.

73 all.  DaveL  G3TJP