That doubles the thickness, doesn't it?

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I'll wait for the pic lol

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How does that work? (Keep in mind I'm still learning a lot) I like the idea of the internal battery being disconnected if something external is hooked up, but I don't know how that would be wired up.

That'll be interesting to see. I'm going to go to Radio Shack this week if I have time and look for some momentary push buttons that are pretty small and see if I can't whip up a piece of pvc pipe with switches under my forefinger and thumb (on top, mounted in a pvc cap) to see how practical it is to do CW one handed. I'm thinking a strap to wrap around my hand to prevent the pipe from falling out of my hand should do the trick. I'm thinking if the switches were normally open switches and I ran the ground to one lead of the switch and hot to the other, it should work. When you get your touch keys installed, I'd like to see them. I freaking love small stuff! Especially if it's almost completely self contained so there's less to carry around.

You have a 3D printer? How cool!

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10201684632186424

Hopefully that link will work. I wanted to upload the video using Tapatalk, but it wouldn't give me the option of a video. So I uploaded it to my Facebook.

I made one mistake. AM makes a paddle that's made to be mounted into the Rock Mite. It's got a cavity recessed into the bottom of it so it'll sit flat on top of the enclosure. I didn't like the blue color so I ordered what I did. Now I realIze the screws that hold the solder lugs will cause it not to sit flush, so when I get an enclosure I'll have to drill some extra holes for those screw heads to sit down into.

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I like the size and I like that the spring appears to be from a ball point click pen.  Easy to find a replacement if this one takes a leap somewhere.  The instructions said to clean up burrs and sharp edges left over from the milling process, but I didn't find any. The parts were all very clean and smooth when I opened the package.

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I've bought an SMT learners kit off of Amazon, you might've seen the pic on Facebook. What size iron did you use? I'm very new to this and want to buy a smaller one if I need to.

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Did you use a soldering iron or a heat gun and paste?

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Thanks for my morning laugh.

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I've never built anything that uses crystals and I've never even held a crystal in my hand, so I didn't know they came in different sizes. I've only seen the taller ones and when I came across these I wasn't sure if they were the same thing as what I've seen. Thanks for the reply.

Is this just as simple as it looks?
http://www.icmfg.com/crystal_hc49s.html
Just low profile crystals?

Sounds good. I don't have any electronics training and no real Elmer, so I'm learning as I go the best I can. Lots of things I don't understand.

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Thanks for the replies. I'll take a look at both filters. Now, is this like a filter that I'd get for my Icom that'll neck down incoming signal and reject nearby signals so I only hear what I'm hoping to hear? The RM][40 comes with a built in picokeyer, so I went ahead and ordered this paddle: http://www.americanmorse.com/dcp.htm. Hopefully I won't screw this up. lol I'll post pics as I go.