[Elecraft] Oh Crap

Victor Rosenthal 4X6GP k2vco.vic at gmail.com
Mon Jul 18 15:56:24 EDT 2022


I recommend extracting it from the rear with small needle-nose pliers. I 
have succeeded in doing this even with the smaller 3/16" jacks. Maybe an 
excuse to buy yet another tool!

73,
Victor, 4X6GP
Rehovot, Israel
CWops #5
Formerly K2VCO
https://www.qsl.net/k2vco/Victor

On 18/07/2022 17:14, Andy Durbin wrote:
> I doubt you will see anything useful if you open the rig.  Multi
> contact jacks are usually closed assemblies not like the open contact
> types we used years ago.
> 
> There have been discussions of broken plug tips in Kenwood and
> Elecraft group.  There seem to be two solutions.  Either change the
> complete jack assembly or improvise a method to extract the tip the
> way it went in.
> 
> I found one discussion here -
> https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg246619.html
> 
> Andy, k3wyc 
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