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:
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> [mailto:
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> Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 9:29 PM
> To: James Sarte
> Cc:
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> 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
> >
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