[Elecraft] [K2] Hardened K2 for HFPack?

[Don Wilhelm]

  Anyone with a good woodworking or metalworking shop should be able to 
build a set of suitable extensions for the K2 side panels.
If built out of wood, I would likely use 1/2 inch Baltic Birch plywood 
(it is 9 ply and has no voids) for its strength in all directions, but a 
1/2 inch thick piece of most any hardwood (oak, cherry, walnut, or even 
some of the exotic species) planed to 1/2 inch would look nice IMHO.  I 
would just fasten the wood to the existing side panels and make the 
added sides extend to the plane of the furthermost projection on the 
front and back of the K2.  Longer screws could be used to secure both 
the added panel and the original to the K2.

A similar procedure could be used with metal, but it does not have to be 
as thick as the wood.  In my judgment, 3/16 to 1/4 inch aluminum 
material would be great.

Anyway, that is how I would do it, and NO, I am not going to supply them.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 4/2/2011 2:46 PM, John Fritze wrote:
> I would be interested in a set of these elongated end panels too.
>   Unfortunately it seems the person who used to make them, Randy K3QO (ex
> WJ4P) was killed in a plain accident a while back.
>
> John
> K2QY
>