stripped screws

[Jack Crenshaw]

Heathkit seems to have bought, early on, a trainload of #6 sheet metal screws.  Fitting
screw nuts or other types of fasteners is a possibility, but the easiest thing is simply
to replace them with #8's.

Jack


Tom Elmore wrote:

>    I have a SB-221 amp and the screws that fasten the cover for the tube
> compartment have stripped out of the metal. I have seen this in other heath
> kit products and I think it is because of the thin sheet metal. Besides
> changing to a larger screw what other suggestions might be available in the
> way of a better fastener.
>
> Thank You
> Thomas Elmore, KA1NVZ
> Barrow,Alaska
>
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