Like many of you I suspect I have been plagued with the black paint rubbing off the front of my K2 knob over time. I have repeatedly tried touching it up with black car touch-up paint but before long it looks a mess again. I have been considering attaching a new front plastic disc on it to sort the problem, but with my mechanical skills it would unlikely look very pretty.
Today I was eyeing a pile of electrolytic capacitors in the junk box. I picked up a 470uF 400V cap and noticed it had a nice black plastic disc on its top, covering up the aluminium below. Even better it was 34mm diameter, about the same as the K2 knob. A quick cut and pare with the wire cutters and it was removed and stuck on the front of my knob. Superb..... Maybe won't last, but I have quite a few more of those caps! And this mod doesn't even make the caps unusable, they work just the same without their plastic top! 73 Dave G3YMC -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/K2-Knob-tip-tp15075476p15075476.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.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
