[Elecraft] K3 Broken AF knob and bad service to geta replacement.

[Grant Youngman]

>> 
>> To be honest I don't think they suit the look of the K3. They don't even
>> match the other knobs. It might be a solution in ten years time when a knob
>> breaks and Elecraft doesn't make them any more, but that's the situation I'd
>> really like to avoid.

Elecraft has made available a new composition knob that will apparently cause the set screws to pulverize before the plastic cracks.  Just contact support.

I'm wondering what all the hoot is, still, about knobs. The Mouser things look like they don't belong -- like the chop jobs on radios that show up everyday on eBay when somebody decided they liked something other than originals.  I have 60 year old radios with original knobs, and as long as I don't use a driver-drill to tighten them, I'm not too worried about replacements from the long extinct manufacturer.   I wouldn't be inclined to buy a radio that has aftermarket junk screwed to it -- and once removed, originals tend to find their way to the same mysterious place that missing socks go ... :-)

Grant/NQ5T