I can't believe I'm opening myself up for such ridiculing, but how are people tightening the on/off and standby switches? From what I can gather, you use the hex nut on the inside of the chassis to determine how much thread shows up on the outside. then you use that circular nut with the notch in the middle, followed by the smaller knurled round nut. But how do you tighten the two outside nuts? I thought the best idea might be to use a thin wrench to get at the regular hex nut inside, but I don't have one and don't know what they'd be called - usually such wrenches arrive with cheap furniture.
Any suggestions? I'd love to use these sexy washers, but I might have to go with hexy, my old standby.
thanks,
dave
crazy question: how to tighten these switches?
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I finally found some flat wrenches that I use to tighten the inside nut. Before that I had made a tool for this.
Without buying a wrench just to tighten 2 nuts, you can do it the way you describe. I used to set the inside nut and then tighten the outside ring using pliers and a rag to protect the ring!
If anyone wants to buy the wrenches, they are for sale here:
http://www.eastwoodco.com/jump.jsp?item ... pe=PRODUCT
They also fit the chrome jack nuts, fuse holders and pots.
george
Without buying a wrench just to tighten 2 nuts, you can do it the way you describe. I used to set the inside nut and then tighten the outside ring using pliers and a rag to protect the ring!
If anyone wants to buy the wrenches, they are for sale here:
http://www.eastwoodco.com/jump.jsp?item ... pe=PRODUCT
They also fit the chrome jack nuts, fuse holders and pots.
george
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