K3 kit builders start your nuts ...

[KM5Q]

Start them with a Heathkit nut starter! It's a little plastic tube  
just soft enough to stretch over the two main sizes of nuts. Makes it  
SO much easier to start those little buggers.

You'll need to find an Old Master who saved them from the good old  
days. Get on his good side, and MAYBE he'll give you a nut starter he  
saved from the good old days.

Then, promise to save it for the next generation.

Thanks Fred.
Windy KM5Q
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[Kevin Rock]

   I found my collection of them worked nicely.  Old Master?  No, I just built a number of Heathkits in the late '60s and the '70s.  Kept me out of even more mischief.  It seems like only yesterday.
   Kevin.  KD5ONS


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>From: KM5Q <[hidden email]>
>Sent: May 2, 2008 11:08 PM
>To: [hidden email]
>Subject: [Elecraft] K3 kit builders start your nuts ...
>
>Start them with a Heathkit nut starter! It's a little plastic tube  
>just soft enough to stretch over the two main sizes of nuts. Makes it  
>SO much easier to start those little buggers.
>
>You'll need to find an Old Master who saved them from the good old  
>days. Get on his good side, and MAYBE he'll give you a nut starter he  
>saved from the good old days.
>
>Then, promise to save it for the next generation.
>
>Thanks Fred.
>Windy KM5Q

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[W6NEK]

It's called a Menda 35120 Nut Starter and is available from HMC Electronics for $1.80
Here is a link: http://www.hmcelectronics.com/cgi-bin/scripts/product/2240-0021/ 
Fits nut sizes #2 thru #6.

I still have two Heathkit nut starters from 40 years ago and they still work FB!  Wouldn't be without one.

73,
Frank - W6NEK

Windy Dankoff KM5Q wrote

Start them with a Heathkit nut starter! It's a little plastic tube  
just soft enough to stretch over the two main sizes of nuts. Makes it  
SO much easier to start those little buggers.

You'll need to find an Old Master who saved them from the good old  
days. Get on his good side, and MAYBE he'll give you a nut starter he  
saved from the good old days.

Then, promise to save it for the next generation.

Thanks Fred.
Windy KM5Q
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[drewko]

A blob of Coax Seal at the end of a shaft (dowel, screwdriver, pen
casing, etc.) will also do the job.

73,
Drew
AF2Z


On Fri, 02 May 2008 23:26:58 -0700 (PDT), Frank - W6NEK wrote:

>
>It's called a Menda 35120 Nut Starter and is available from HMC Electronics
>for $1.80
>Here is a link:
>http://www.hmcelectronics.com/cgi-bin/scripts/product/2240-0021/ 
>Fits nut sizes #2 thru #6.
>
>I still have two Heathkit nut starters from 40 years ago and they still work
>FB!  Wouldn't be without one.
>
>73,
>Frank - W6NEK
>
>

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[Bill Johnson-9]

I have two, but parting would be difficult.


72,

Bill

K9YEQ
K2 #35, K2 # 5279, KX1 #35, Mini Modules, etc.  


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Start them with a Heathkit nut starter! It's a little plastic tube  
just soft enough to stretch over the two main sizes of nuts. Makes it  
SO much easier to start those little buggers.

You'll need to find an Old Master who saved them from the good old  
days. Get on his good side, and MAYBE he'll give you a nut starter he  
saved from the good old days.

Then, promise to save it for the next generation.

Thanks Fred.
Windy KM5Q

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