I’ll chime in. I had never built anything previously. So, successfully building the K3S gave me a great sense of accomplishment.
The assembly manual for the K3S is excellent. Follow it carefully. I made 3 goofs during construction. No big problems, easily diagnosed by tech support. I believe I made the mistakes by working too late into the night when I should have gone to bed. Moral of the story: Follow the manual religiously, don’t be in a hurry. WA1EAZ > On Aug 5, 2016, at 5:36 PM, Ralph Parker <ve...@shaw.ca> wrote: > > >Pay very close attention to the screw lengths and sort them out carefully... > >later you may need the 3/16" and the 1/4" is tooo long :) > > Amen to that, brother! > After 50+ years of building radios, I built my K3 very carefully. > However, on completion, the output was very intermittent. Tapping on the > cabinet would trigger the problem. I tried everything, including on line and > on-the-phone discussions with the Elcraft service dept. > Finally, I boxed it up and sent it to the doctor. > They diagnosed the problem right out of the box, with no tools. > I had placed two lockwashers on the wrong end of the screws holding the > driver transistors to the bottom of the case, so they made only intermittent > contact. Bingo! Was my face red! > > The moral of the story: be careful, and check EVERYTHING during assembly. > > VE7XF > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to jstengrev...@comcast.net ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
