White Flat Washer

[Enelight]

I'm just starting to put the crack together and I'm on the step where you install the RCA jacks. It calls for a white flat washer to be put in- what does this look like? I checked through all the pieces and don't seem to find anything that might be it (of the right size/color). I'd appreciate if anyone could link a picture of what it looks like. Thanks!

 

[Strikkflypilot]

Maybe it is already on Your RCA connector. Post a picture of the RCA You received.

 

[Enelight]

 

[Strikkflypilot]

The industry standard is red for right. Left can be both white and black, in Your case black.
It looks good and complete to me.

 

[Enelight]

The industry standard is red for right. Left can be both white and black, in Your case black.
It looks good and complete to me.

There is your problem, they have red and black washers.  Be certain that the shoulder on the very think washer is toward the top plate.

These are there to keep the common for the right and left signals from contacting the top plate.  That could cause a ground loop.  Bottlehead is being careful to make your grounding system noiseless.  Follow the instructions and you will be there.

So I just want to confirm, the manual has a typo and it should be "red" and "black" washers, respectively, instead of any mention about white washers?

 

[borism]

I don't think it is a typo. It probably just wasn't updated in the manual when they changed the RCA supplier in the kit. It used to be white and now it is black and red.
The new RCAs in the kit (including the double nuts so they would not loosen over time) seem much nicer than the old part.

 

[mcandmar]

The new style RCA sockets were a recent change, the old ones used white insulating washers for both the left and right RCA sockets, vs the new style that have colour coded washers. Sounds like the manual makes reference to the original style.

I agree the new style sockets are much higher quality, i binned all my originals long ago and replaced them with these Rean sockets so thumbs up to Bottlehead for doing the same.