Tayda Enclosure Warning

[Cybercow]

Just got in a Tayda 1590DD enclosure and that I had painted and drilled at a different shop. When it arrived, I started to go about the task of mounting the pots to start the guts-stuff-testing only to find that the walls on that enclosure will NOT allow the nuts on the 9mm pots to catch onto the shaft housing threads. I thought: "WTF?" . . . . So I got out some 16mm pots to see if they would still mount properly. Turns out 16mm pot nuts still caught on the threads, but only barely. Then I got out my micrometer to measure the thickness of the top of the enclosure. It measured consistently at 4.5mm. Again . . . "WTF?"

I can't use 16mm pots because of how the pot spacing is laid out - they're too close together to allow 16mm pots. 12mm pots would fit, but I don't stock 'em and never considered 'em.

In any case, (no pun intended, but there it is), watch out for more "seconds for the masses" from Tayda. A 4.3mm thickness on enclosure walls is way too thick for 9mm pots. I've ordered 12mm pots for the thick-walled (finished) enclosure to see if they will fit. And am sending the machining/painting house a fresh glossy-white 1590DD (from LMS) that is of standard 2.5mm thickness. Guess I'll be building two of them now if the 12mm pots work in the thick-walled box.

Watch out out there. Happy building!

 

[benny_profane]

Have you tried without a washer? Although there wasn’t a lot of thread to catch, I’ve been able to install 9mm pots on tayda enclosures. However, I haven’t tried on the 1590DD, so that may have a substantial increase in wall thickness compared to other sizes.

 

[Harry Klippton]

I had this problem on a 1590a the other night too

 

[DGWVI]

I've run into this as well. I just lightly countersink on the inside, and forego the washer on the 9mms

 

[Harry Klippton]

I've run into this as well. I just lightly countersink on the inside, and forego the washer on the 9mms

That's better than what I did. I just crammed it in its cramhole til it caught

 

[benny_profane]

I just crammed it in its cramhole til it caught

What’s a ‘cramhole’?

 

[Harry Klippton]

It's whatever hole you're cramming

 

[jimilee]

Sounds like it needs a good sanding, that ridiculous. Almost twice as thick?

 

[Big Monk]

This is a known thing.

 

[RetiredUnit1]

cram hole adjusters

 

[Bricksnbeatles]

Mine is super thick too. Using 24mm pots because of that (and for the mojo )

 

[DGWVI]

What’s a ‘cramhole’?

If you have to ask, you don't deserve to know

 

[Betty Wont]

What’s a ‘cramhole’?

Was I paged?

 

[Harry Klippton]

I guess "cram it in your cramhole" isn't the common expression I thought it was

 

[benny_profane]

I guess "cram it in your cramhole" isn't the common expression I thought it was

Ohh man. That’s my favorite Mental EP.

 

[jimilee]

You guys must be from up north…

 

[Big Monk]

Was I paged?

Fucking classic.

 

[Cybercow]

Have you tried without a washer? Although there wasn’t a lot of thread to catch, I’ve been able to install 9mm pots on tayda enclosures. However, I haven’t tried on the 1590DD, so that may have a substantial increase in wall thickness compared to other sizes.

Yes. I've tried it without the washer and it still won't catch. Besides, without washers, the pot nuts would foul the paint job. I prefer not to risk it.

 

[Cybercow]

Sounds like it needs a good sanding, that ridiculous. Almost twice as thick?

I've no means to sand or otherwise mill it from the inside. Yup, 4.7mm is almost twice as thick as 2.5mm. A real PITA.

 

[Cybercow]

You guys must be from up north…

Um . . . yup. In the upper peninsula of the upper peninsula of MI.