iSteadii 2.0 - Image Stabilizing Unit

Step 4 Inserting and Tightening Up

We now need to insert the bolt and tighten it.
This can be a little tricky.

Insert the first washer leaving the other outside the wall.

We now need to tighten the bolt.

This is where the pliers, spanner and tape come in.

Take your tape and wrap it firmly around the exposed thread. Put enough on it, so the pliers will not damage it when gripped.

Grip the taped thread with some force and use the spanner to tighten the nut.
Not much pressure is required to sandwich the wall, so you should not damage the thread.




We're almost there!!

Comments

[helpme66]

Here's the best way to hold the thread.

Take a spare nut and cut through one of the corners (between two of the flats where the spanner goes) with a hacksaw. The nut should now look like a circle with a gap in it.

Screw the nut onto the thread and squeeze the nut against the bolt with a pair of visegrips.

This will grip well but won't damage the thread.

[The Lightning Stalker]

The proper way is to use 2 spanners, or better yet, socket wrenches.

[Lftndbt]

How would you get, to the head inside the ball? You can't, therefore you need to grip the thread. ; )  Another spanner or socket wreches won't help.

[The Lightning Stalker]

Make a small hole on the bottom? I dunno, sorry. I don't understand if you're trying to do all this using just the one hole or what exactly. If you're gripping the nut with pliers through the skin of the ball, that would be more than enough to protect the threads. I would recommend a large wing nut in that case. Much easier to grip in a situation like that

[Lftndbt]

Yes, you would be trying to tighten the bolt reversed through the single top hole.  A hole at the bottom would effect the rolling weight.


Gripping through the ball may work. It does not take my tension to tighten against the skin of the ball, you could almost do it by hand.


In regards to how you should do it properly. You should get another two nuts "lock" them together on the exposed thread, grip them with a spanner then use another one the tighten the lower nut.

[The Lightning Stalker]

There's nothing wrong with your nylon lock nut either.