[Boatanchors] Stereo jack mounting and butchering front panels

[John King]

It never ceases to amaze me how stupid or careless some prior owners of boat anchors have been.

Witness purple radios, and  holes cut out of front panels because the owner was too lazy or ignorant of the internet to scrounge up direct replacement parts. I have an Apache that some owner who decided to change the microphone jack and instead of locating a female 1/4 inch stereo jack and mounting it without butchering he/she merely replaced the original jack with a two pin panel female microphone jack. I started to remove the two pin jack and replace it with a 1/4 inch stereo jack for push to talk and realized that the previous owner had removed the original jack, REAMED out a large hole that the entire jack I wanted to mount in the hole just passes through the hole.

I will improvise, adapt  and do something to overcome the problem and frustration. 

I need a stereo female 1/4 inch jack with threads approximately 1/2 inch as opposed to the standard 1/4 inch jack which has 3/8 of an inch mounting threads, so it will reach through the chassis and front panel
 Do you know of a source for that type jack? 

Has anyone run into this problem and do you know if the 1/4 inch stereo jacks with 1/2 inch of mounting threads are manufactured. Thanks and 73, John, K5PGW