[Elecraft] K3 bottom cover screw spinning in place

[Mark C. Killmon]

Builders,

 

When removing the screws from the cabinet of my K3 to make the IF
sensitivity mod, and the one-wire receiver protection mod, I've run into a
show stopper.

 

The screw in the middle of the front-most bottom cover is just spinning in
place. This is a factory build, and all the screws let go with a loud BANG,
which is either expected from differential metal expansion/contraction, or
they were really torqued when they were installed. Anyway, the screw in
question never made any noise, it just gave resistance and spun in place,
like there's captive hardware on the other side that is just spinning. I
don't know if there's access to it if I remove the back-most bottom cover.

 

It looks like it would be hard to access from the top, without taking most
of the rig apart. That's not an attractive proposition.

 

I hate to take the Dremel tool to it.

 

73, Mark

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