I have some Alps potentiometers and rotary switches without nuts, and I'm trying to get some to fit. I think it's something like the following:
Is this common stock or do I need a specialist, if so who?
andy
I'd be tempted to take a trip to the nearest Maplins to see what they'd recommend :-}
In article , Eusebius scribeth thus
If you can't find any you could get a lump of M8 studding and locknut a couple of nuts on the end and grind them, or rather the end one down to the right thickness....
This is 1.25 pitch. I think my problem is that this is the usual pitch for M8, but the Alps is 0.75. I guess that being a thin nut they wanted more purchase.
So basically still searching (and waiting for a reply from Alps)
Andy
Check out Modern Screws of Bexley Kent.
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Eusebius saying something like:
I'd be surprised if RS or CPC/Farnell don't have securing nuts for pots and switches. NR Bardwell is another that springs to mind. Used to be ten a penny at any component stockist.
Is it ISOmetric extra-fine? I dimly recall having something like M10 at 1mm pitch or thereabouts; fortunately we had sets of taps and dies for EF threads.
If you want to roll your own
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