We did a full retrofit on our house in 2017 and I was anxious to get the most out of my system and once again those wonderful guys as Signals came up trumps and Andy (as a paid consultant) re-assembled my 9 tiers of fraim and dressed various burndies and connected my n-sub via speaker terminals.
To be honest I’ve been afraid to touch it since except to change out the odd non-Naim source component, but it’s been static since 2019.
Time to bite the bullet though and do a full shake down and clean and rebuild with some trepidation I’ve started…………
Only to hit a snag pretty early on in proceedings a burndy on my 552 which I cannot budge - nor can my 28 year old son!
So as no-one had it locally I’m waiting for Amazon to deliver a strap wrench which hopefully will give me the necessary leverage to release it. - The 300 burndies are okay as one can get one’s wrist around them but the closeness of the other inputs on the 552 (which I did eventually manage to dislodge) and 552 PS mean I’m using fingers which just are not strong enough.
Luckily I have a pair of KEF LS50WII which i can bring into action so I’m not music-less
Thanks for the reminder, full strip down planned for next week and ordered one as I remembered last time it took all my strength or lack off to open a burndy on my 552.
I also failed to remove the nuts on the Fraim base as I must have previously tighten them up too much, so will try some WD40 this time.
I’ve had this a few times and my solutions have been:
1- if possible (and with due care), get the unit to ground/on to a kitchen work surface with a towel underneath, to stop sliding i.e. somewhere where you can get better leverage.
Obviously, moving a sprung unit needs thinking about and great care.
2- get any kink/tension out of the burndy
3- use a very slightly wetted cloth/strong kitchen towel to wrap around the metal ring, as this gives more grip IME. Obviously, dry the ring once released.
Like you, I’ve considered reaching for my tools but I’ve never needed them. Perseverance being a virtue IME.
Mission accomplished. Sounding superb.
Slight increase in distance between brains and brawn stacks and better Burndy routing has made a positive difference. No shim/spacer needed under Trampolin 2 either. Happy.
Same here. A few years ago I did a rebuild after an interval of several years and was so struck by the improvement that I resolved to do it more frequently. Last spring I did a full rebuild, which yielded more than the expected improvement (I tweaked a few details on my souped-up Tripod stacks, to good effect), but I was so wrecked after it that I have no problem going at least 2 to 3 years without trying that again
Astonish glass cleaner already has the Naim pieces sparkling, and will tomorrow have the glass shelves sparkling. WD40 at the ready to polish the stainless steel cups and bearings etc.
Getting a lot of slagging from my wife and kids about the care I’m taking in my otherwise less than sparkling existence.