We picked up a great heaping bunch of 3.5 mm miniature phone jacks that are missing their mounting hardware.
Neither a normal 1/4-42 nut nor an almost normal 6x0.75 fine pitch metric nut seems to fit properly.
Best remaining guess is that it is a 6x0.5 metric nut.
Mouser lists them on page 1479 but declines any order.
Any sources for less than three cents each?
Subject: Strange nut source needed
Sci.audiophoole ? Sci.entology?
martin
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I don't know of a specific source, but have one suggestion - if you don't have a metric thread gage, use a typical CD-drive mounting screw, M3-0.5, to test if the pitch is .5 mm.
-jiw
McMaster-Carr has probably the best selection of hardware in the US.
You are in the right newsgroup for strange nuts . . for sure.
That would be my first guess. M6 x P0.5. Probably supplied with a knurl rather than a hex, and are not standard nuts, they're a screw machine part made specifically for that kind of component.
Not domestic, I'm afraid. They're normally thrown in with the jacks. You might be lucky and find someone who makes their own nut or something and has heaps of them laying around.
Best regards, Spehro Pefhany
Just look at the jihad thread for confirmation.
- YD.
I was hoping he could use Eeyore, Homer, and Phil. :(
Throw in you, Jim and some assorted Johns for completeness.
- YD.
Wrong threads.
Send me one Don. I'll see if they have something at Skycraft in Winter Park. Bob Gardner 513 Mary Jess Orlando 32839
Well, you're screwed in the head as it is.
- YD.
Yawn. Spoken by someone who's never screwed, no doubt.
-- Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to prove it. Member of DAV #85.
Michael A. Terrell Central Florida
Dunno about less than 3 cents (probably in volume though) but try Maryland Metrics. They make to order so if they don't have them in stock I'm sure they can work out what you need.
Cheers AJ
You really must do something about that insomnia. The impact on your wit is noticeable.
- YD.
By a half wit? I doubt it.
Isn't the obvious solution that Don just get out the lathe and make some nuts, and then tap them with the tap he must have?
Michael
If I had a decent lathe I'd try it. Buy some long hex spacers, drill and tap the end, slice a few off and repeat till its too short to cut any more pieces. Even if he doesn't have the right tap, they aren't that expensive.
What's the matter, didn't like getting included in the nut job list? Quite serious lack of sense of humour there, my chap.
- YD.
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