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Joshua Gould, K8WXA

Scratched off screen printing on a week old KX3?

I was moving my hand from the keyboard to the radio and brushed my
fingernail against the yellow word tune before realizing that my finger was
too low to get to the band switches. I managed to scratch the U out of the
yellow word tune on the front of my case.

Can I expect the rest of the yellow functions to just rub off the face of
the case?

So far this is my only disappointment in an otherwise excellent radio...

72,
Joshua Gould
K8WXA
EM89pn

KX3# 7465
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Bill Wilkins

Re: Scratched off screen printing on a week old KX3?

You could place a small piece of Scotch tape over the remaining letters.
Or go to the craft shop and buy some yellow paint and a super fine tip brush and touch up the letter.
Find a label maker that can print a yellow TUNE and overlay a new TUNE.
Or, just live with it.
73, Bill, WD8JWJ

Scott Manthe-2

Re: Scratched off screen printing on a week old KX3?

The point is, of course, that the printing shouldn't come off quite so
easily, especially on a 1 week old radio. The original poster has a
valid concern. Minor to you, possibly, but the front panel printing on a
transceiver shouldn't scrape off with a brush of the fingernail.

73,
Scott, N9AA

On 2/17/15 1:51 PM, Bill Wilkins wrote:

> You could place a small piece of Scotch tape over the remaining letters.
> Or go to the craft shop and buy some yellow paint and a super fine tip brush
> and touch up the letter.
> Find a label maker that can print a yellow TUNE and overlay a new TUNE.
> Or, just live with it.
> 73, Bill, WD8JWJ
>
>
>
>

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Joshua Gould, K8WXA

Re: Scratched off screen printing on a week old KX3?

I've sent a message off to Elecraft and we'll see what they say.

72,
Joshua Gould
K8WXA
EM89pn

KX3# 7465

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Scott Manthe <[hidden email]>
wrote:

> The point is, of course, that the printing shouldn't come off quite so
> easily, especially on a 1 week old radio. The original poster has a valid
> concern. Minor to you, possibly, but the front panel printing on a
> transceiver shouldn't scrape off with a brush of the fingernail.
>
> 73,
> Scott, N9AA
>
> On 2/17/15 1:51 PM, Bill Wilkins wrote:
>
>> You could place a small piece of Scotch tape over the remaining letters.
>> Or go to the craft shop and buy some yellow paint and a super fine tip
>> brush
>> and touch up the letter.
>> Find a label maker that can print a yellow TUNE and overlay a new TUNE.
>> Or, just live with it.
>> 73, Bill, WD8JWJ
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Phil Wheeler-2

Re: Scratched off screen printing on a week old KX3?

In reply to this post by Bill Wilkins

Live with it? I sure hope he does not! Nor do I
agree with the other bandaid approaches below.

He should:

* Get a new front panel from Elecraft
* Buy some fingernail clippers :

Phil W7OX

On 2/17/15 10:51 AM, Bill Wilkins wrote:
> You could place a small piece of Scotch tape over the remaining letters.
> Or go to the craft shop and buy some yellow paint and a super fine tip brush
> and touch up the letter.
> Find a label maker that can print a yellow TUNE and overlay a new TUNE.
> Or, just live with it.
> 73, Bill, WD8JWJ

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James Bennett

Re: Scratched off screen printing on a week old KX3?

I just “tested” the durability of the yellow paint on my KX3 # 5539. Pushed pretty hard with the edge of my fingernail and no way was that paint coming off. Bad paint job somehow slipped through. Elecraft will most certainly make good on it.

Jim / W6JHB

> On Tuesday, Feb 17, 2015, at Tuesday, 12:13 PM, Phil Wheeler <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> Live with it? I sure hope he does not! Nor do I agree with the other bandaid approaches below.
>
> He should:
>
> * Get a new front panel from Elecraft
> * Buy some fingernail clippers :
>
> Phil W7OX
>
>
> On 2/17/15 10:51 AM, Bill Wilkins wrote:
>> You could place a small piece of Scotch tape over the remaining letters.
>> Or go to the craft shop and buy some yellow paint and a super fine tip brush
>> and touch up the letter.
>> Find a label maker that can print a yellow TUNE and overlay a new TUNE.
>> Or, just live with it.
>> 73, Bill, WD8JWJ
>
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Joshua Gould, K8WXA

Re: Scratched off screen printing on a week old KX3?

In reply to this post by Phil Wheeler-2

I just got a reply back from Elecraft and am very happy with the proposed
solution. I'm just going to need to swap my SideKX end plate for the
factory ones...

72,
Joshua Gould
K8WXA
EM89pn

KX3# 7465

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 3:37 PM, Phil Wheeler <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Yeah, G5RVs are vulnerable. I'm in the Los Angeles area and mine gets
> zapped now and then by palm fronds -- even got the capacitive hat on my
> rotating D4 dipole last year. All repaired now.
>
> My TH3Mk4 is (fortunately) out of reach of the palm tree!
>
> 73, Phil W7OX
>
> On 2/17/15 12:32 PM, Joshua Gould wrote:
>
> It did. I was just poking some fun. I would be enjoying the KX3 even
> more if the recent wind storm didn't damage my G5RV...
>
> 72,
> Joshua Gould
> K8WXA
> EM89pn
>
> KX3# 7465
>
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Phil Wheeler <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>> I guess the :-) didn't come thru!
>>
>> On 2/17/15 12:15 PM, Joshua Gould wrote:
>>
>> My nails barely extend past my fingertips, thank you very much. LOL I
>> really think it was an angle thing, (e.g the way my nail hit the case)
>>
>> 72,
>> Joshua Gould
>> K8WXA
>> EM89pn
>>
>> KX3# 7465
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 3:13 PM, Phil Wheeler <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>
>>> Live with it? I sure hope he does not! Nor do I agree with the other
>>> bandaid approaches below.
>>>
>>> He should:
>>>
>>> * Get a new front panel from Elecraft
>>> * Buy some fingernail clippers :
>>>
>>> Phil W7OX
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2/17/15 10:51 AM, Bill Wilkins wrote:
>>>
>>>> You could place a small piece of Scotch tape over the remaining letters.
>>>> Or go to the craft shop and buy some yellow paint and a super fine tip
>>>> brush
>>>> and touch up the letter.
>>>> Find a label maker that can print a yellow TUNE and overlay a new TUNE.
>>>> Or, just live with it.
>>>> 73, Bill, WD8JWJ
>>>>
>>>
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Bill Wilkins

Re: Scratched off screen printing on a week old KX3?

Glad it is working out for you.
I admit my past suggestions were a bit lame and I apologize. I may have been having a migraine that day or something.
73, Bill, WD8JWJ

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Re: Scratched off screen printing on a week old KX3?

Elecraft has Always made things right for any issue I've had with them.

From: Bill Wilkins <[hidden email]>
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Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Scratched off screen printing on a week old KX3?

Glad it is working out for you.
I admit my past suggestions were a bit lame and I apologize. I may have been
having a migraine that day or something.
73, Bill, WD8JWJ

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