[Elecraft] k3s radio kit

[James Walker]

Has anyone mentioned the styrofoam method? I’ve always saved a good chunk of styrofoam from an appliance purchase to be used to stick parts in. It works super for capacitors, resistors and similarly shaped parts. It’s a bit tedious to put the parts into the foam block one by one, but it makes identifying and selecting them for installation so much easier during kit construction. Also, they don’t fall out easily.

Jimmy Walker
WA4ILO
Macon, GA

On Aug 6, 2016, at 12:51 AM, Vic Rosenthal <k2vco.vic at gmail.com<mailto:k2vco.vic at gmail.com>> wrote:

I like metal cupcake tins (muffin pans). They are shaped so it's easy to get little parts out, and you can set them on your antistatic mat or connect them to it.