On Sun, 2 Aug 1998 PGHDTS@aol.com wrote:
> Recently I received a NORCAL K8FF keyer paddle kit.
> The two pieces do not look exactly like the drawing. The shafts that
> I received are mirror images of each other but have the plastic paddle
> mounting flat facing the center of the base rather than towards the outside.
The first 1000 or so of the K8FF/NorCal paddles had the plastic
"paddle pieces" mounted on the outside of the dit/dah shafts, forming
a wider spacing between the paddles then some cared for. As a result,
the shafts were remachined for mounting the plastic pieces on the
INSIDE of the dit/dah shafts to form a narrower spacing between the
paddles for those shipped after the first 1000 paddle kits.
Therefore, you must must mount (temporarily) your dit and dah shafts
per the drawing and see if the notches for the plastic pieces are
on the inside or outside of the paddles and mount accordingly.
The paddle drawings were redone (by me) to show how the plastic pieces
were relocated to the inside surface of the dit/dah shafts, but it is
possible the first few went out with the original drawing.
GL, Paul NA5N
(The guy who did the paddle drawings ... over and over and over ...)
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