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Barry Middleton

Re K2 New builder

Hello George,
If it is of any help to you when I built my
two K2's I used a foam rubber pad to mount all the passive components
i.e. the capacitors, chokes and the loose resistors. I also used
conductive foam for the transistors etc. I did this for each board and
in the value order they were to be mounted on the PCB. I found that this
also helped to prevent components going missing as some of the caps are
very small.

Enjoy the building of your K2 and using one of the finest rigs on
the market for the price, more joy for less dollars Hi.

Barry G4DBS
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Tom McCulloch

Re: Re K2 New builder

Good point -- I seem to recall that the resistors are on those "machine gun
strips" were in some sort of logical order and it might be best not to
remove them ahead of time...does this sound familiar to anyone ?

Tom
WB2QDG
K2 #1103
----- Original Message -----
From: "Barry Middleton" <[hidden email]>
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Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 5:20 AM
Subject: [Elecraft] Re K2 New builder

> Hello George,
> If it is of any help to you when I built my
> two K2's I used a foam rubber pad to mount all the passive components
> i.e. the capacitors, chokes and the loose resistors. I also used
> conductive foam for the transistors etc. I did this for each board and
> in the value order they were to be mounted on the PCB. I found that this
> also helped to prevent components going missing as some of the caps are
> very small.
>
> Enjoy the building of your K2 and using one of the finest rigs on
> the market for the price, more joy for less dollars Hi.
>
> Barry G4DBS
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RobertG

Re: Re K2 New builder

Yes, the resistors are arranged in the order of usage. I left them in
the strips and pealed them off as needed. A nice feature, to be sure.

...robert

Tom McCulloch wrote:

> Good point -- I seem to recall that the resistors are on those "machine gun
> strips" were in some sort of logical order and it might be best not to
> remove them ahead of time...does this sound familiar to anyone ?
>
> Tom
> WB2QDG
> K2 #1103
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Barry Middleton" <[hidden email]>
> To: <[hidden email]>
> Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 5:20 AM
> Subject: [Elecraft] Re K2 New builder
>
>
>> Hello George,
>> If it is of any help to you when I built my
>> two K2's I used a foam rubber pad to mount all the passive components
>> i.e. the capacitors, chokes and the loose resistors. I also used
>> conductive foam for the transistors etc. I did this for each board and
>> in the value order they were to be mounted on the PCB. I found that this
>> also helped to prevent components going missing as some of the caps are
>> very small.
>>
>> Enjoy the building of your K2 and using one of the finest rigs on
>> the market for the price, more joy for less dollars Hi.
>>
>> Barry G4DBS
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Tom McCulloch

Re: Re K2 New builder

In reply to this post by Tom McCulloch

George -- yep, that's what I did and then I kept those pages in a three ring
binder (except for the resistors, which I kept on the strips they came on) .

For what it's worth, when I shared this with this list I was advised that
the adhesive from the tape may cause a problem with the conductiveness (not
really a word) of the leads (I didn't find this to be a problem, but just
tape near the end of the lead that you'll wind up snipping off ).

Tom
WB2QDG
K2 1103
----- Original Message -----
From: "George A. Thornton" <[hidden email]>
To: "Tom McCulloch" <[hidden email]>; "Barry Middleton"
<[hidden email]>; <[hidden email]>
Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 11:50 AM
Subject: RE: [Elecraft] Re K2 New builder

I found an easy way to handle small components.

I sorted components and scotch taped them, properly grouped and labeled,
to sheets of paper. That made it much easier to keep everything
organized and to find what I needed.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Tom McCulloch
Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 8:08 AM
To: Barry Middleton; [hidden email]
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Re K2 New builder

Good point -- I seem to recall that the resistors are on those "machine
gun
strips" were in some sort of logical order and it might be best not to
remove them ahead of time...does this sound familiar to anyone ?

Tom
WB2QDG
K2 #1103
----- Original Message -----
From: "Barry Middleton" <[hidden email]>
To: <[hidden email]>
Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 5:20 AM
Subject: [Elecraft] Re K2 New builder

> Hello George,
> If it is of any help to you when I built my
> two K2's I used a foam rubber pad to mount all the passive components
> i.e. the capacitors, chokes and the loose resistors. I also used
> conductive foam for the transistors etc. I did this for each board and
> in the value order they were to be mounted on the PCB. I found that
this
> also helped to prevent components going missing as some of the caps
are

> very small.
>
> Enjoy the building of your K2 and using one of the finest rigs on
> the market for the price, more joy for less dollars Hi.
>
> Barry G4DBS
> ______________________________________________________________
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