[Elecraft] Elecraft Kit Assembly

[Harry Yingst]

 If you search for "Menda 35120" you will find other vendors selling them
Mouser, Newark< Digi-Key, etc


    On Wednesday, December 2, 2020, 07:16:02 PM EST, Joe K2UF <joe at k2uf.com> wrote:  
 
 And $9.00 shipping + tax 

73,  joe K2UF

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And a whole $2.00!

That's pretty much what the Heathkit one looks like, only red.

73,
Scott K9MA

On 12/2/2020 3:56 PM, Harry Yingst wrote:
> Looks like Jenson Tools sells them
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> Look Here
> https://www.jensentools.com/menda-35120-four-way-nut-starter/p/758ie35
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> On Wednesday, December 2, 2020, 03:37:55 PM EST, K9MA 
> <k9ma at sdellington.us> wrote:
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> When assembling the KAT500 kit yesterday, I found it frustrating 
> trying to get the nuts started on the connector screws. Then I 
> remembered assembling Heathkits, like 50 years ago. Heathkit provided 
> a little plastic tube thingy for starting hex nuts. (I'm sure some of 
> you other OF's remember them. They were red.) I looked in the toolbox, 
> and there were two of them! (They're still red.) Given all the hex 
> nuts in the KAT500 kit, if I hadn't already had them, I'd have been 
> glad to pay an extra 10 cents or so if one were included with the kit.
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> 73,
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> Scott K9MA
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