[Elecraft] K3/100 kit

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

Another approach is to simply turn the K3 so that gravity holds the screw in
place as you start it. That is, always be working with your screwdriver
vertical, tip down, when starting a troublesome screw. There are only a few
of these, so it's not as much tipping of the K3 this way or that as one
might imagine. Just turning the rig so the parts won't fall to the bottom is
a huge help. They'll usually fall right out onto the bench if they land on
the side somewhere near the opening you're working through. 

The *worst* possible orientation, IMX, is to be standing over the rig
working through the open top.  

That's something I do with *any* piece of equipment I'm fiddling with and
find a screw needed where it (or its lock washer) might get lost or hard to
retrieve if I dropped it. 

That doesn't mean I *never* drop something. I have very strong little magnet
on a long thin screwdriver-like-shaft that I can "wave" around near the PC
board and that almost always causes the part I dropped to jump up onto it
even if I couldn't see it. 

Ron AC7AC