DRUMMER CAFE

hey everyone, be cautious when mounting a cymbal stacker on your threads of your stands and tightening the small lug screw on them , they can easily crush your threads if you want to put your wingnut back on, I have top of the line pearl stands , luckily I have a tap and die set to regroove and true the threads without taking it to a smaller size, I dont know how to avoid this from happening and I dont have room for separate splash arms, and im not overtightening them, only to where the stacker wont swivel on me during a show, any ideas?

I have seen some stands that the screw is removable. If you could find these you could keep extra pins or screws and just leave the one on the stackers on the stackers and put the others in for regular cymbals, or get a threaded long nut to screw down and screw another threaded pin 1/2 in the long bolt and screw your stacker on that! Will probally have to go to a screw company to find a long nut. They are usually hard brass. Make sense? I personally do not use stackers. I just get more stands. I currently usually use 10 Cymbals counting 2 Hi Hats. One is a Pearl remote Hi Hat mounted 1/2 way up on a telescoping boom stand with a 14" crash above the hi hats on the boom. The remote hat goes between my 1st and 2nd tom. Look at the photo below and the Remote Hi Hat is between my 1st and 2nd tom. I had a 20" crash in this photo mounted on the boom with the remote hi hat! ! 
Danny

My cymbal stacker has a side shaft screw that adjusts the diameter of the female thread. I don't use this to clamp down on male counterpart. I adjust it so that the stacker is the proper diameter for that bolt, and just screw it on as if it were any wing nut. I don't tighten it all the way down onto the felts, just the same as I don't tighten any of my wingnuts down. I like to leave them a little loose.

I thought the purpose of that little adjustment was so that you could use the stacker on a variety of stands with different bolt sizes, not to be used as what actually clamps the stacker to the adjoining stand. Maybe my stacker is a little different than yours?