[Elecraft] [K2] Assembly question

[gdaught6 at stanford.edu]

Randy and Fred wrote...

> > I'm assembling K2 #7193 for a friend.   L5 is specified as a 33 uH
> RF
> > choke (ORG-ORG-BLK).  The closest RFC I can find in the kit looks
> to
> > me like BRN-BRN-BLK.  No RFC in the parts list is specified as
> > BRN-BRN-BLK.  So the one I have found must actually be
> ORG-ORG-BLK,
> > right?  I'm a little color blind, but haven't had any trouble
> with
> > any other components...
> 
> I'd say show it to a woman except that can lead to, "Sort of a light
> salmon, and the second one is more of a peach ..." :-)  I don't have
> any 
> color vision at all and my wife has now figured out that if I show
> her a 
> part and ask for the colors, I'm asking for pre-school color names,
> not 
> the names on her make-up.

Another problem is that the paint colors are actually variable.  I can go out to my 
resistor stash, and find 'orange' bands that range all the way to brown.  This isn't my 
color vision causing a problem.  It could be aging of the paints they use, a lack of 
standardization of color, etc.  And look at a resistor that's been overheated for a long 
time.  Red goes to brown, orange goes to brown, green goes to brown, etc.  The 
ohmmeter generally doesn't get confused by color differences, but I guess that doesn't 
help for inductors.

73,

George T Daughters, K6GT
CU in the California QSO Party (CQP)
October 4-5, 2014