tobinator fitting question?

[fozziegsa]

Hi all, just fitted my tobinators today but came across one fault.

Having read the instructions to make sure, it tells me to

"slip a long square headed bolt (with small washer) into the rear hole!
The next thing is to

"Get a rear tobinator piece and loosely screw the rear bolt into the threaded hole in the piece as shown on the left. Then put a washer and a nyloc nut loosely onto the protruding end of the rear bolt."

The thing i found is that the thread isnt long enough and the nylon part of the nut isnt being used.

Am i doing something wrong here.

Cheers
Fozziegsa

 

[roddy]

is this the bolt that goes through the screen then onto the tobinator ? if so this bolt is normally a cap head allen bolt so it recesses into the cap on the side of the screen.

you've either got the wrong bolt or it just not long enough

 

[fozziegsa]

Hi,
the bolt has a washer at the head, it then passes through the "end plate", through the screen, through the "spreader" and then through the "tobinator riser" (flat slotted plate).
After that is has a washer and a the nyloc nut.

Both the heads protrude out of the end plate.

Fozziegsa.

 

[haydw]

What size are the bottom allen head bolts that come with tobinators? I seem to have lost one. Have tried M6- too small. M8 is too big. Is it a UNF or imperial size???

 

[Betty Swollocks]

Hi all, just fitted my tobinators today but came across one fault.

Having read the instructions to make sure, it tells me to

"slip a long square headed bolt (with small washer) into the rear hole!
The next thing is to

"Get a rear tobinator piece and loosely screw the rear bolt into the threaded hole in the piece as shown on the left. Then put a washer and a nyloc nut loosely onto the protruding end of the rear bolt."

The thing i found is that the thread isnt long enough and the nylon part of the nut isnt being used.

Am i doing something wrong here.

Cheers
Fozziegsa

I just fitted a 2nd hand set today.
Same problem, but only on one side. The bolt was a few mm too short. So I used the original screen bolts, only needed one, but used two to keep them both black.
The 2 'longest' bolts I had were slightly different lengths, so maybe I got sent the wrong bit