[ARC5] Plate clips

[AKLDGUY .]

Interesting info, thank you.

The diameter of the 2E26 plate cap is 3/8", the same as 807-1625-6146.

US$15.00 is trivial to me. I'm desperate. It translates to something like
NZ$20
and I spend that on lunch and a coffee every 3 days at the malls.

73 de Neil ZL1ANM

On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 11:46 AM, WA5CAB--- via ARC5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
wrote:

> From measuring the ID at the large end of a batch of unused Fahnestock
> clips that I have here for building A-82's, you might possibly use them on
> standard grid caps as on a 6K7 or 6R7.  The ID seems to be between 0.210"
> and 0.220" and the diameter of a grid cap is a nominal 0.250".  When
> compressed to hold a wire, the ID drops down to around 0.187.  So you would
> have to solder the wire to them.  I did not crawl into the shop attic for a
> 1625 to measure but the plate cap diameter is at least 0.375".  So no way
> would you be able to use a Fahnstock clip there.
>
> Someone else already said that they had two 1625 size plate clips that he
> would send.  So I would forget the Fahnstock clips.  I'm sure that I have
> some as well.  Postage is going to cost considerably more than most of you
> probably think.  For one thing, the first increment is 0 to 4 ounces.  For
> another, if you want them to be usable when they arrive, they will have to
> be in a box.  Without looking it up, I would guess $15.00.
>
>
> In a message dated 04/14/2017 18:03:30 PM Central Daylight Time,
> tomlee at ee.stanford.edu writes:
>
>
> Modern Radio Labs still sells them: http://www.modernradiolabs.
> com/FahnClips.htm
>
> --Cheers,
> Tom
> --
> Prof. Thomas H. Lee
> Allen Bldg., CIS-205
> 420 Via Palou Mall
> Stanford University
> Stanford, CA 94305-4070
> http://www-smirc.stanford.edu
> 650-725-3383 <(650)%20725-3383> (public fax; no confidential information,
> please)  On 4/14/2017 3:01 PM, AKLDGUY . wrote:
>
> I think Fahnestock clips haven't been advertised in ZL for decades.
>
>
> Have a 1999 Dick Smith catalog here and it doesn't list them.
>
>
> 73 de Neil ZL1ANM
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 6:18 AM, ersmar <ersmar at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> Fahnstock clips might also work.
>
> 73 de
> Gene Smar AD3F
>
>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Robert Eleazer <releazer at earthlink.net>
> Date: 04/14/2017 2:10 PM (GMT-05:00)
> To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [ARC5] Plate clips
>
>
> Neil:
>
>
>
> You can't use small binder clips for that application?  Or perhaps cable
> ties to hold flat/curved plates against the tube caps?
>
> Wayne
> WB5WSV
>
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