[Elecraft] K3- Part fell out!

[Lee Hiers]

I've built a fair number of kits using surface mount parts, and it always
annoyed me that capacitors were never marked, while resistors were.  I
never heard an explanation of why that was.

73,

Lee, AA4GA

On Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 5:32 PM Geert Jan de Groot <pe1hzg at ymbk.nl> wrote:

> On 23/01/2023 22:22, elecraft-request at mailman.qth.net wrote:
> > I dropped d a lock washer into the bowels of my K3 today, so had to
> invert
> > the unit to get the washer out of the unit.  When I did so, the washer
> fell
> > out of the unit, but so did another component.  Its a small rectangular
> > part, white on one side and blackish on the other, and either "3K3" or
> > "3R3" is stamped on it.  I don't know where the part came from, or where
> it
> > should go back' I'm just sure it doesn't belong sitting on my bookshelf
> > rather than be in the radio.
>
> You will need to send a picture so that people can determine what it is.
>
> I took the K3 schematics (since you didn't mention K3s) and did a search
> for 3.3 ohms and 3.3 kohms but that didn't give a hit, suggesting it may
> not be a resistor. There are 3 3.3uf capacitors in the radio.
>
> Once we've established what it is we can search further.
>
> I thought it would be a 3.3 ohm resistor that would run hot, un-solder
> itself but as said, can't find a schematic that has it.
>
> GJ
>
>
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