<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>On Jan 20, 2013, at 8:01 PM, Dave Sieg wrote:</div><div><br></div><div>> Like the previous "what is it" questions, here is a picture for you to guess some details about.</div><div>> I found these going through my esoteric junk boxes today and thought about the quad group contests.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I offer:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Those look like transport buttons from an Ampex MM1000, but I'm guessing. They don't look like VTR buttons to me.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Dave also posted:</div><div><br></div><div>> The second drawing is my real question.</div><div>> The first drawing is of a nut with a bulb on the end,usually aluminum, that is often used on covers of rackmount equipment to hold the front plate on or somesuch. It mates to metal or sometimes rubber brackets that hold the plate firmly in place, but all you have to do is yank on the plate and pull it off. They are usually tapped with 6/32 or 4/40 threads. I can't figure out what to call it much less find it. I've used the extensive hardware searches on Mouser, Newark, and DigiKey but without a name... What's it called? Where can I get some?</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I guess:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I could be wrong, but I've always called these things 'nibs' or 'nubs'. I cannot imagine where you could find them except of course from a company that makes racks.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Dave added:</div><div><br></div><div>> The second should be really simple too, its an insulated standoff that I've seen in quad machines (not totally OT, this post) and tube type amplifiers. Also usually a 6/32 nut with an insulator then a stalk to solder components to. I guess there is no call for these anymore, but I'd sure like to find a supply of them at a not too exhorbitant price.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I shrug:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>That one I've never seen so I can't help.</div><div><br></div></div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Dennis Degan, Video Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> NBC Today Show, New York</div><br></div></div></span></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>