[Elecraft] [K3] Assembly question

[Terry Schieler]

My washer was quite loose on the build of K3 #474.  The rattle bothered me
on such an otherwise fine piece of engineering.  Elecraft service said they
had heard of it once before and that I probably didn't have the front panel
seated properly.  Then I began to read that many others had the problem on
their K3's.  So I added a dab of hot glue to the washer and it rattles no
more.

Just FYI, when I snugged the nut down enough to stop the washer from
rattling, I could see the front panel visibly bending under the force
(fingers only).  So I backed the washer off to where it was just snug (and
the panel stopped bowing) and went with the hot glue fix.

Terry, W0FM

-----Original Message-----
From: David Lankshear [mailto:dave at lanks.plus.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 7:53 AM
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] [K3] Assembly question

It was a bit loose on my K3 #1122, but I've seen it as a close fit on other
K3's and a slack fit on a couple of others.

Mine rattled when the internal speaker was used so I put a little bit of
stuff called Blu-Tak on mine to stop it rattling. Subsequently, on  removing
the DSP from the front panel to make changes, I used a tiny dot of superglue
to fix it to the front panel.   After finger tightening the nut on the jack
socket there's still a tiny gap but it doesn't rattle any more.

73  DaveL  G3TJP