John - I had the exact same experience - reversed several steps to see if I had done something wrong - went back together and same thing occured. It is a tight fit - just loosen several of the 2D screws and give it just a bit of a slight nudge and SLOWLY tighten screws, each a bit at a time, unitl all are tight again - works fine and no smoke!! ( Whew!! ) hihi... now if I can just figure out how to adjust the oscillator without spending three weeks turning the VFO to get to the frequency.... posting a query on that in just a minute...
Dale Probably not a big deal, but in putting together my kit(after 2 months sitting on my bench)I had some difficulty in mating the bottom of the front panel and aligning the connectors to the edge of the RF board. After finally getting that accomplished, the holes at the bottom corners of the front panel didn't quite line up with the threaded holes in the 2D blocks . The 2D blocks are oriented correctly. I had to push against the panel to make the holes line up. Loosening the 2D blocks didn't help and the connectors were seated together with no gaps and inserted properly. Anyway, as I said no big deal, but was concerned because everything prior went together so smoothly and I might have put something together wrong but double checked all my work to make sure I hadn't missed something. Resistance checks were ok and now I am at the point of applying power to test for smoke. This is a fun project. 73, John N1JM ----- 73, Dale K7DNH -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/K3-Kit-slight-concern-tp2538669p2538760.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________ 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
