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Clockwise or counter looking at the panel?

I apologize for the stupid quesion but I have a set of MIT interconnects with locking RCA's that I a trying to remove. When I installed them, I only tightened by hand but now when trying to remove them they don't budge either way. I was going to take the pliers to them but didn't want to tighten them further by accident. I assume counter clockwise (that being how most things unscrew)but it didn't work by hand....

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wstritt
subaruguru
1,375 posts
 
Hang on! Some ICs use left-hand thread collets. DO be careful!
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glen
714 posts
 
I am holding an mit cable in my hand. Grasp and turn clockwise to loosen.
tnkujry
36 posts
 
From the front of the gear turn counterclockwise to loosen - from the rear (if that's what you mean by looking at the panel), it'd be clockwise.

Good luck.

Barton
perfectimage
406 posts
 
MIT goes the other way. Right to loosen. Its not that its left threaded its the design of the locking rca's.
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swampwalker
5,138 posts
 
Wstritt- cfb's rhyme is right, but the advise is wrong. Looking from the back, hold the knurled end thats closest to you, and turn the locking barrel (closer to the unit) clockwise.
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