sonicfedora
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- May 5, 2012
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Little back story.
There is a resale place down the road that buys amazon returns and resells them. The longer something has been there the lower the price. I was digging deep one day and found an MFT/3 replacement top with a smashed corner. Their original price was $90 but it was there for so long it was 90% off. So I got an mft top for $10. I know... I suck.
I was wanting to get an MFT anyways and thought it was meant to be that I build an MFT instead.
So... all of that to say that the "heritage" of my top is a little in question. Don't know if the smashed corner is why it was sent back or if that happened afterwards.
I bought a set of QWAS raildogs (from Bob Marino... holy crap... they were in Nashville THE NEXT DAY... INCREDIBLE SERVICE!) and two pairs of the small 20mm dogs from Lee Valley. I got those because they were cheaper and threaded which seems like it'll come in handy.
Well the raildogs when tightened all the way down don't securely lock into the rail. Am I missing something? I feel like it shouldn't slide around. Maybe the screw is bottoming out and I just need to get a smaller screw or maybe I don't understand how something works.
Also both brands of dogs wiggle in the holes a bit. Is this normal? I kind of expected them to be tighter than they are. I just want to make sure that they are supposed to have a little wiggle room and that my top isn't defective.
I know I'm probably explaining all of this poorly so I made a video.
There is a resale place down the road that buys amazon returns and resells them. The longer something has been there the lower the price. I was digging deep one day and found an MFT/3 replacement top with a smashed corner. Their original price was $90 but it was there for so long it was 90% off. So I got an mft top for $10. I know... I suck.
I was wanting to get an MFT anyways and thought it was meant to be that I build an MFT instead.
So... all of that to say that the "heritage" of my top is a little in question. Don't know if the smashed corner is why it was sent back or if that happened afterwards.
I bought a set of QWAS raildogs (from Bob Marino... holy crap... they were in Nashville THE NEXT DAY... INCREDIBLE SERVICE!) and two pairs of the small 20mm dogs from Lee Valley. I got those because they were cheaper and threaded which seems like it'll come in handy.
Well the raildogs when tightened all the way down don't securely lock into the rail. Am I missing something? I feel like it shouldn't slide around. Maybe the screw is bottoming out and I just need to get a smaller screw or maybe I don't understand how something works.
Also both brands of dogs wiggle in the holes a bit. Is this normal? I kind of expected them to be tighter than they are. I just want to make sure that they are supposed to have a little wiggle room and that my top isn't defective.
I know I'm probably explaining all of this poorly so I made a video.