[Elecraft] K3/100 kit

[Mark Bayern]

I find I have no problems working with screws in a horizontal axis. A
good (Wiha or equiv.) screwdriver will hold a screw with the shaft of
the screwdriver horizontal. For example to put the top cover on the K3
you could put the K3 on its side (side feet down on the counter,
handle up), put a screw in the screwdriver and screw it into a hole on
the top cover. Of course, the cover is a trivial example, but the same
operation works for installing screws inside the K3.  It just requires
a good screwdriver, not necessarily magnetic.

Mark

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire <ron at cobi.biz> wrote:
> 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