Titan Grounding Nut - T750
$6.99
Product details
Part 17-8908-07 is the grounding nut on the Titan T750 backpack vacuum, threaded onto the grounding screw to complete the machine's earth connection.
Loose hardware has a way of disappearing during a repair, and on a busy service bench a mismatched nut from the parts tin often stands in for the one that rolled off the table. A backpack vacuum is never still while it is being worn, and that constant vibration is exactly what backs a poorly matched nut off its thread over a few weeks of use, even when it looked snug the day it went on. By the time it is noticed missing, the grounding connection it was holding has already gone unreliable, and an unreliable ground is the kind of fault that stays invisible in day-to-day use and only shows its cost at the moment its protection is actually needed. A nut that is even slightly off in thread pitch will start tight and still work its way loose within a season of regular use.
- Part: 17-8908-07
- Fits: Titan T750
- Function: secures the machine's grounding connection
- Pair with: the matching grounding screw if rebuilding that connection
Matched to the original thread pitch and dimensions, it draws down fully and holds its torque through the vibration a shift on someone's back puts it through. Order it alongside the grounding screw whenever that connection is being rebuilt, since a fresh nut on a worn screw, or the reverse, tends to fail again sooner than replacing both together, and the small savings of reusing one worn piece rarely holds up over the following months.
