After some experimentation - I decided to bite the bullet and BUY a K2 toroid-set from TOROID GUY. I felt it was the best decision I made in my K2 # 5422 build.
I could never convince myself I ever got the tinning operation done well enough, and was also worried about "nicking" the fine toroid wire - causing future wire breaks. Another real risk would be not tinning far enough up the wire - and when the toroid is soldered into PCB - a dead connection is possible. I try to tension stretch the toroid wires from below the PCB, but again worried about stretching toroid wire past the tinned area. And loose toroids didn't make a lot of sense. The TOROID GUY seems to make almost perfectly wound and tinned toroids. I don't know who he is or how he does it - but he must have a ton of patience. I have no connection with his operation at all. Thanks, Fred N3CSY ..... right handed, but a bit ambi __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
