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Perhaps this is a dumb question:My Hammond power transformer that came with my Paramour kit has much shorter bolts than the ones shown in the manual. There is NO WAY you can place two #8 shoulder washers, the #8 lock washer and the nut on the short bolts. The Hammond power transformer in the picture on page 15 has bolts that look as if they are 1" or more in length ... the bolts on mine are about 3/8" in length. It seems as if they sent me the wrong parts.
Any suggestions?
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Others have had this problem before:
... I also sanded down the little plastic insulator/bushings a little bit to be able to get enough stud sticking through to properly snug up the nuts.Mounting the transformers was absolutely the hardest part of building the amps, so don't be discouraged!
all the best,
mrh
With the bushings and lock washers, some nuts will be hard to start on the screw threads. Don't force it. That is a good way to cross thread the screw. To fix this, take the lock washer off, gently start and then tighten the nut (but not all the way tight - no grunting allowed when tightening!). After the nut is tight, take the nut off. This will compress the bushings and any paint build up on the chassis and transformers. Now you can put the lock washer on the screw thread and properly tighten the nut.As you tighten the nuts, make sure the bushing is properly seated in the mounting holes and is not just getting crushed.
Thanks for all the advice, but I re-measured the exposed bolt and it is only 1/4" in length. When you add the shoulder washer and the lock washer, there is absolutely no room for a nut - trust me on this. Even when I follow everyone's input, I wouldn't be able to turn the nut even one revolution. I'm doing all this when the transformer isn't even on the plate ... the plate adds a little bit of additional thickness (even when the shoulder washers are properly seated) so installing the washers or the solder lug is out of the question. In theory, I could sand each of the shoulder washers to make them thinner, but that seems to counter intuitive.I'll call Bottlehead today and see what they can tell me ....
Yep,
Same problem. I ended up sanding the shoulder washers, and it worked, but just barely. Anyway, mine have been up and running for months now, with no problems. Good luck.
i once had a similiar situation while rebuilding my VW bus engine, came to a place where the new oil pump was several millimeters deeper than the old one, i could just get the nuts to screw on the studs, and did not bother to replace the too short bolt studs with longer ones...it was a good engine for a couple thousand miles before all the oil got pumped out instead of thru....
Someone goofed somewhere at Hammond.If you want to replace them yourself from a Hardware store, you will have to carefully get all the shellac (varnish) off the threads to unscrew the retaining nuts...a bit of a challenge.
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