# Avoiding eccentric nuts get tightened
**URL:** https://community.inventables.com/t/avoiding-eccentric-nuts-get-tightened/38348
**Category:** Assembly
**Created:** [June 1, 2017, 12:40am UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/avoiding-eccentric-nuts-get-tightened/38348 "2017-06-01T00:40:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@MiguelPrada](https://community.inventables.com/u/MiguelPrada)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2017, 12:40am UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/avoiding-eccentric-nuts-get-tightened/38348/1 "2017-06-01T00:40:13Z")
Adjusting eccentric nutsm finally after suffering a lot of mistakes and wasting material, I found a solution for avoiding, eccentric nuts get tightened, I used another nut over the eccentric nut, and a washer in the middle, no more; the additional nut and the washer press the eccentric nut, So that the nut does not loosen.
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### Author:  [@MiguelPrada](https://community.inventables.com/u/MiguelPrada)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2017, 5:03am UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/avoiding-eccentric-nuts-get-tightened/38348/4 "2017-06-01T05:03:33Z")
> [@PhilJohnson](#):
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> eccentric spacers.
Do u have a link for an online shop, the same reference, didn´t find “extended shoulder”
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### Author:  [@MiguelPrada](https://community.inventables.com/u/MiguelPrada)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2017, 5:08am UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/avoiding-eccentric-nuts-get-tightened/38348/5 "2017-06-01T05:08:33Z")
[https://www.amazon.com/Eccentric-Spacer-Full-Size-Wheels/dp/B0197CCUIG/ref=cm\_cd\_al\_qh\_dp\_t](https://www.amazon.com/Eccentric-Spacer-Full-Size-Wheels/dp/B0197CCUIG/ref=cm_cd_al_qh_dp_t) may be, these are extended shoulder?
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### Author:  [@MickZebra](https://community.inventables.com/u/MickZebra)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2017, 6:45am UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/avoiding-eccentric-nuts-get-tightened/38348/6 "2017-06-01T06:45:03Z")
I also added the extra nut without the washer and so far no problems
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### Author:  [@KennethConnell1](https://community.inventables.com/u/KennethConnell1)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2017, 1:43pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/avoiding-eccentric-nuts-get-tightened/38348/8 "2017-06-01T13:43:28Z")
from Invetables
> **[Eccentric Spacer](https://www.inventables.com/products/eccentric-spacer)**
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> Overview This is a spacer that has an off center (Eccentric) 5mm hole drilled through it. It is used to tension V wheels against MakerSlide material. You mount this in a 7.14mm (0.281 dia.) hole. When you rotate it, it will move a V wheel mounted to...
once there you can choose the extended shoulder from the list.