[Elecraft] [K3] Assembly question

[Radio Amateur N5GE]

On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:53:00 -0000, "David Lankshear"
<dave at lanks.plus.com> wrote:

I presume you considered that if there was ever a reason to remove the
washer in the future, you may have to damage the front panel to remove
it, and decided that was not an important issue.

>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

Tom, N5GE

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