[Elecraft] Elecraft Kit Assembly

[Rob, N9DTT]

A reasonable alternative can be made with a pencil or dowel stock and some non-adhesive shrink tubing.


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Rob
N9DTT

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On Wednesday, December 2, 2020 2:53 PM, KENT TRIMBLE <k9ztv at socket.net> wrote:

> That's been suggested to Elecraft many times over the past 21 years.
>
> Wonder if anyone still makes them.
>
> My three sleep in their own bin!
>
> 73,
>
> Kent  K9ZTV
>
> On 12/2/2020 2:35 PM, K9MA wrote:
>
> > 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.
> > 73,
> > Scott K9MA
>
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