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

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

Good to hear you didn't change the encoder unnecessarily, Dave! 

I often hesitate to say something, recalling all the times I've carefully
"fixed" something only to hear later that there was a much
simpler/quicker/cheaper way to accomplish the same thing <G>. 

Even though I write many of the Elecraft assembly manuals, I never write
"RTFM". Here in the colonies it tends to be associated with a somewhat more
vulgar term. 

Mind you, I might THINK it some times, but I'd never SAY it, not because I'm
so polite but because I've been caught not reading the docs myself!

Ron AC7AC

-----Original Message-----

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 _______________________________________________