I went this route a couple months ago on my K3. The Alco knobs do look spiffy, although they protrude slightly further out from the front panel. After a while I went back to the factory knobs on the inner shafts. Why? Because the stock knobs are far more comfortable on the fingers. I'm a CW op, and I frequently adjust both the AF and RF gain controls. I don't have the 2nd receiver (yet) thus there is no need for me to adjust the outer knobs (yet) so I left the spiffy but uncomfortable knobs on the outer shafts.
Moral of the story: It is mighty hard to improve upon the K3. 73, john WA1ABI > -----Original Message----- > From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net > [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net]on Behalf Of Brett Howard > Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 9:29 PM > To: James Sarte > Cc: ac...@aol.com; elecraft@mailman.qth.net > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3: machined concentric knobs from Mouser > > > The word is inexpensive... not cheap! Those look really nice! I was > just sitting here wondering if there was a knob that would fit over the > shift, width, speed, and pwr knobs. I'm not so sure I'd want to mess w/ > them too much though as I'd not want the spacing between them to get too > terribly much smaller. They work well as they are... But that does look > quite good... > > ~Brett > > On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 21:09 -0400, James Sarte wrote: > > Here are two pictures. I left the bottom RF knob off to give > you an idea of > > how well the larger concentric knob slides onto the encoder shaft. It's > > perfect; no looseness or wiggling. > > > > > > > > http://jamespaulsarte.com/temp/ham/knob1.jpg > > > > > > > > http://jamespaulsarte.com/temp/ham/knob2.jpg > > > > > > > > James K2QI > > ______________________________________________________________ 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
