[sdiy] special tightening tools?

[Cynthia Webster]

Hi Dan!

I recommend getting hollow shaft nutdrivers with the glossiest thickest 
chrome dunking available on the front face
of the driver, (the part closest to touching your front panel).  I bough 
a pair of beautiful precision sets from Xlite and
they were terrible as far as scratchiness factor!

Presently I am very happy with Sears Craftsman tools they sell them at 
OSH too.
The metric ones are the ones I use all of the time with the Yellow 9mm 
always for toggle switches, and the
Blue 10mm  useful for all of the Alpha 16mm pots that I use, and then 
there's the brown 12mm which is great for
larger 24mm pots and for banana nuts and some pushbuttons.  There is a 
larger one for 3/8 mounting hardware
like quarter inch phone jacks, and every once in a while you need a big 
1/2 inch unit for rotary switches.

By the way you do not have to buy a whole set  at  Sears as you can 
break up the set and take only the drivers
that you actually do need to the register (all the drivers have their 
own bar codes).

Also to avoid stressing your artful panel try using washers under 
everything you panel mount - so that the nut is
spinning against the washer instead of the panel, and tighten with the 
panel of pots facing a wall (not the sky),
and of course, a light touch also helps ya!

Cynthia

Dan Snazelle wrote:
> OK
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> nut drivers it is!  should  i buy some specific values (like the one amos recommended) or just a cheap set?
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> these look good.
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> thanks all as usual
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> ________________________________
> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:38:19 -0400
> From: controlvoltage at gmail.com
> To: subjectivity at hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] special tightening tools?
> CC: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
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> I second the recommendation of Westward hollow-shaft nut drivers (not as painful as they sound) ;)
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> This one gets the most use on my bench; I have the business end padded with cloth tape.
> http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/items/1UG30
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> Cheers,
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> Amos
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> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Dan Snazelle  wrote:
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> i am in the process of tightening about 50 pots and 30 toggle switches on a panel that was hand painted with acrylic paint and then sprayed with some kind of clear coat. it is prone to scratching easily (the paint) so i dont want to go my usual route of just tightening everything with needle nose plyers
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> SO i was wondering what all of you use? I have tried a socket wrench but that usually doesnt work as the handle is too long and bumps into other pots and the socket itself isnt deep enough for the toggles....
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> is there a tool sold by mouser or someone similar or even better, something i can get at the hardware store.
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> i went into my local store (and even brought along some alpha pots and some toggles) and they were off almost no help....guess they dont see a lot of sdiy'ers in there.
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