[Elecraft] I got big heavy knobs...

[David Cole]

Stephen,
There is something I never expected...  Seeing an Elecraft radio
compared to a washing machine!  You are of course correct, but the
comparison gave me a good chuckle this morning, thank you! :)
-- 
Thanks and 73's,
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On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 15:11 +0100, Stephen Prior wrote:
> There was an issue mentioned by Elecraft (Eric I think), that they had seen
> some failures of the encoders fitted with heavy knobs when the K3 had been
> in transit somewhere, UPS/USPS etc.  Vibration and the greater weight of
> the knob can produce a damaging cantilever effect, much as is the case with
> a front loading washing machine!
> 
> 73 Stephen G4SJP
> 
>