I bought Joey's hardwood cab. It had his Mark IV in it, but I put my DC-3 in it.
There was a huge problem mounting it in the cab though, because the DC-3 had chassis straps with 10-24 bolts. The bolts were too big to fit through the holes in the SUS-4 mounts on the cab.
This threw me for a loop because Mesa no longer supports the SUS-4 and does not have any 8-32 cage nuts.
I live in a medium sized town and could not find anything anywhere to solve this problem. I wanted to replace the cage nuts and screws or install 8-32 nuts in the top lip of the chassis so that the SUS-4 screws would work. Nobody had anything like that. I went to a local body shop and they had Nut-Zerts, which are sort of like a pop-rivet, but the holes in the chassis were too big. Back to square 1. I looked all day yesterday and was just about to give up when the candle came on above my head.
I remembered that I had to remove the 4 metal tabs that Mesa puts on the top of a lot of their chassis so that it would fit in the cabinet.
Guess what, they were 8-32 and there was enough metal on them to allow me to epoxy them to the inside of the top lip of the chassis in the holes where the chassis strap bolts passed through them originally.
What an ordeal. I had originally tried to epoxy 8-32 nuts to the inside of these holes, but that didn't work because they were almost the size of the original hole and there was not enough meat on them for the epoxy to do any good.
I spent 8 hours trying to find something that was right in front of my tunnel vision. Looks like I pulled a Homer. DOH!!!!!
I thought maybe that sharing this info would help some poor sucker like me who just might have placed himself in this same situation.
There was a huge problem mounting it in the cab though, because the DC-3 had chassis straps with 10-24 bolts. The bolts were too big to fit through the holes in the SUS-4 mounts on the cab.
This threw me for a loop because Mesa no longer supports the SUS-4 and does not have any 8-32 cage nuts.
I live in a medium sized town and could not find anything anywhere to solve this problem. I wanted to replace the cage nuts and screws or install 8-32 nuts in the top lip of the chassis so that the SUS-4 screws would work. Nobody had anything like that. I went to a local body shop and they had Nut-Zerts, which are sort of like a pop-rivet, but the holes in the chassis were too big. Back to square 1. I looked all day yesterday and was just about to give up when the candle came on above my head.
I remembered that I had to remove the 4 metal tabs that Mesa puts on the top of a lot of their chassis so that it would fit in the cabinet.Guess what, they were 8-32 and there was enough metal on them to allow me to epoxy them to the inside of the top lip of the chassis in the holes where the chassis strap bolts passed through them originally.
What an ordeal. I had originally tried to epoxy 8-32 nuts to the inside of these holes, but that didn't work because they were almost the size of the original hole and there was not enough meat on them for the epoxy to do any good.
I spent 8 hours trying to find something that was right in front of my tunnel vision. Looks like I pulled a Homer. DOH!!!!!
I thought maybe that sharing this info would help some poor sucker like me who just might have placed himself in this same situation.
