Plinth stuck on tornado c battery with dot

[sdg13]

Has anyone had this happen? I must have not been careful screwing the plinth on and now my battery and dct are stuck to the plinth.

[kd0afk]

Haven't had that problem but I think if you shut the battery down so as to not fire it whilst you are fixing it. Take two pair of pliers and pad the jaws with masking tape. hold the silver part of the Tornado with one pair and the plinth with the other and twist. The tape should protect the tornado and plinth from getting damaged.
Remember, lefty loosy.

[sdg13]

Thank you so much for your reply. I tried that and it wouldn't budge. Surprisingly, the next morning it unscrewed but a piece of the cartomizer was stuck in the battery so both were scrapped. I guess the answer is to be really careful when screwing the plinth on so as not to screw up the threading.

[AWOL]

Have you tried camera method for future reference?
Basically in the olden days, when I were a lad, and a lens were a treasure possession, we always did this:-
When screwing two parts together, to avoid the disaster of cross-threads, the idea was to place the two parts together, but before tightening up, a little bit of gentle lefty-loosey until could hear threads locate, then tighten.
i do this with everything, and soon becomes a good habit, whatever you are doing...

[kd0afk]

Have you tried camera method for future reference?
Basically in the olden days, when I were a lad, and a lens were a treasure possession, we always did this:-
When screwing two parts together, to avoid the disaster of cross-threads, the idea was to place the two parts together, but before tightening up, a little bit of gentle lefty-loosey until could hear threads locate, then tighten.
i do this with everything, and soon becomes a good habit, whatever you are doing...

Standard practice for my Pentax Spotmatic. Also, the pipe organ industry.

[AWOL]

Standard practice for my Pentax Spotmatic. Also, the pipe organ industry.

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It does work though and is a good habit to get into? 

[sukio]

lol being a brickie i thought all threads were called crossed