Reply To: Beolab 18 base bolt

[trackbeo]

The tool that the bases came with!  Or, any wide, flat, piece of steel.  The long middle part of a typical cheap “church key” can opener with both rounded (bottle) and pointy (can) ends would work OK.  The essential knowledge is that the nut will not be tightened beyond the point that a simple flat pry bar would run into the bolt and be bumped off.  Getting the nut off is harder(*), and would require using two smaller flat-head screwdrivers held in a “cross grip”, like a plumber would do. (That’s if you don’t have the double-tipped tool.  The mistake people often make, is trying using the double-tipped tool to tighten the nut — they bend the tool tips.  You tighten with the flat part of the tool, which gives you more torque and won’t set the nut beyond the end of the bolt.)

[Edit: Such precision tightening requires the presence of the 2mm thick lock washer between the nut and the base plate.  Your photo shows one, but if future searchers are DIY with no tool, maybe washers were missing too?]

* “That’s what she said.” (Sorry, been watching to much of the BeoTalk / BOTF bros.)