RJ11 Jack, Panel-mount, ROUND HOLE

Told you when it was the hook thing. Nibbler! Specifically "Adel hand nibbler".

You may not believe this, but "nibbler" is the answer to at least 70% of the questions you've posted in the past year :-).

Tim.

I own two. That doesn't make them useful for accuracy and esthetics ;-) ...Jim Thompson

Sounds like a darn good idea.

Remember all those ads claiming you could get a surplus 'jeep in crate' for 50 bucks?

I sure do. Have you ever heard of anyone who actually got one?

I also remember seeing searchlights[1] for ridiculously cheap. But has anyone ever heard of anybody actually getting one?

Thanks! Rich

There's always a chance someone did in a 'mystery crate' bid, like I heard of a person who was bidding to get to the wood, believe it or not, and allegedly found a P-38 inside. Or at least that was his story but you know how 'stories' go. Maybe he only got a piece of one.

The ads were actually selling 'how to get one' and what you purchased was essentially the same information about how to participate in a military surplus auction that the government would gladly send you for free.

So, bid 50 bucks on a mystery crate, win, open it up and... well, might be rarer than hen's teeth but "it could happen." Might be a crate of toilet paper too.

But the government was never outright selling 'brand new in the crate' surplus jeeps for 50 bucks.

That's what files are for.

Hope This Helps! Rich

Like this one?

Cheers! Rich

They just didn't tell you that you had to buy by the thousands, and pay shipping from wherever they were stored in some foreign country.

Only dropped from a helicopter once.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

Over a M*A*S*H unit, then partially eaten by a cross dressing company clerk. ;-)

I've worn out or broken several Adel nibblers & the replacement punches over the years. The last one I bought was an air nibbler.

That might actually have been a better deal than what it really was.

Some people made a killing by buying the surplus right off the returning warships, then sending it by train to their warehouses where their workers cleaned up or stripped the equipment. Other equipment was sold wherever it sat, and had to be shipped at the buyer's expense. Some of the early surplus dealers made millions every year buying W.W.II surplus. Others bought surplus parts and either sold kits or used it to lower manufacturing costs for their products.

Back in the good old days when I still had ISDN I made an anynomous caller rejector out of an ISDN board and an old VCD player to play a recorded message from a CD recordable.

If I have ISDN again, I'll put together a 'press 1 for...' menu with Asterisk.

If it had come with all the tech orders, it could probably been kept running to this very day. Military tech docs were mind-bogglingly good.

Not too sure about parts these days, but after all, they were made in US car plants; and if you still had one today, you could probably afford to have parts _made_. ;-)

Cheers! Rich

Don't you have a Dremel? If not, it's essential for lots of jobs. Better than any specialized tool.

The router bit goes through plastic cases like butter, and cuts any shape you want. A guide can make it straight or curved. The cutting wheels can make straight cuts too.

the problem with a dremel in plastic is it is TOO good! It very easily 'catches' just a bit, and the next thing you know, you have an extra 1/4" bite!

Charlie