[Elecraft] KX1 battery holder screws too short!

[hawley, charles j jr]

Yes grinding down the nubs on the holders would allow another thread or two, but eliminates the room under the holder for the wires. I considered milling down the screw area from the top of the holder, but that would decrease the meat between the holder and the nub.
They are just the wrong screws. The parts list says 1/8 inch length which is .125 inch, but they are actually about .102 inch or so from the underside of the pan head. Another .050 or .060 is required to do the job properly.

An additional item I have is the sanding or scraping of the paint around the screw holes. I guess it's not too much to ask, but all the time you do it, you remember the wonderful tape over those areas on some of the other Elecraft products cabinets. I found that a #15 scalpel worked best for me, the sand paper is just too awful looking after getting down thru the paint. Would I pay an extra $50 if Elecraft paid the painters to tape those areas? I think I would, but I wouldn't know it :)

Scraping the paint on the W2 case holes was painful as well.

Chuck, KE9UW
aka Jack, BMW Motorcycles BMWMOA #224

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Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 2:46 AM
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Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KX1 battery holder screws too short!

I found the same in the KX1 kit I've just finished - they were way too short
to do the job any which way I tried. I finished by replacing them with
longer steel fittings and hex nuts. It made me wonder whether the screws in
my kit were the wrong spec, or whether the profile of the plastic battery
holders had changed. Either way, I found a fix that works. Took me a while
before I would believe that the supplied screws just weren't going to do it!
A lot of fiddling and futile attempts at grinding down the nubs on the
holders.

73
John
VK7JB

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