[Elecraft] K2 L34 variable inductor screw repair

[Don Wilhelm]

Mark,

The only way I know of to do it reliably is to replace the inductor.
I suspect you stripped the threads on the inside of the inductor core 
and not the slug.  So just bite the bullet and replace the inductor.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 6/17/2018 11:41 AM, Mark Petrovic wrote:
> While performing the IF alignment on my K2 s/n 7809, I must have backed the
> slug on L34 too far up against the can.  Now the slug doesn't move when I
> turn it one way or the other (at some point I was able to advance it
> downward to the 1/2 way point).  Is there any way to re-index the slug onto
> its threads so I can avoid replacing L34 and the desoldering that goes with
> it?