Wing nuts for cymbal stands are not very expensive, unless 10-15 are lost during the course of a year. This is what happened during the 2017 season of the YS. Maybe because there was an increase of touring which meant a lot of packing and unpacking, or just coincidental. But the result was the same: time spent on budgeting and then ordering parts. Another problem was with tightening the wing nuts. Some students felt that it should be threaded on the post until it contacted the sleeve and then add another 4 or 5 turns for good measure. This required more budgeting and ordering to replace the damaged sleeves. Sometimes when setting up the cymbal, the wing nut would take flight and be forever lost on the floor. For some it was easier to go to the cabinet to get a new one rather than look for the original. Then there was the problem of choosing which threading was needed. Is it 6mm, 8mm, or the older 1/4" x 20 tpi (we had all three)? I wanted to find a system that would attach ont...
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