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Jon and others, Thanks for your responses. More...and modification questions

The Mono-blocks I'm using each, have stacked 400 volt Plitron transformers. Total 800 volts per side.
They are mounted as follows:
from bottom up. Amp has 4 rubber feet (sitting on concrete basement) floor, then galvinized steel bottom plate (Amp Chassis), then transformer, 3 inch aluminum flat washer, 1/4-20 stainless steel flat washer, then 1/4-20 brass nut, bolt holding it all together and down tight is 14-20 X 6" long. Bolt comes up from the bottom, in other words, bolt head is under the amp, washers and nut are at the top of the transformers.
What I wanted to do is: Remove two front rubber feet and replace with 1.5 inch brass cones (sitting on/in Herbies Hushpuckies). Remove (or they can stay there) the 2 rear feet. Use 1, 1.5 inch cone (currently tapped at 6 mm) as the bottom nut, as it were, and a threaded 6 mm brass rod, topped off with a, and in this order, top of transformer, isodamp 3" round piece of damping sheet material, Kapton film, also 3" round, 3" stainless flat washer, brass or stainless steel 6 mm flat washer and finished up with a 6 mm brass nut. The third cone will be sitting in/on the Herbies Hushpuckie as well.
By doing this the bulk of the amps weight, and the more vibration inducing portion of the amp will be resting on the rear and last spike in the configuration. I may have to pack out the extra space in the center of the transformer hold-down bolts attachment hole with ? Brass tubing? Teflon tape, Kapton or Teflon sleeve tubing? because the 6 mm rods diameter is less than the holes diameter and I want to remove any kind of "slop" space in there. Any ideas here would be good, about what to do with the slop space. If I have left anything out electrically, please advise. Sorry my plan is sooo long but, its involved, as you can see. Thanks.


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