[Boatanchors] Stereo jack mounting and butchering front panels

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 If you haven't found one by the weekend, I can hunt around in the surplus parts place here to see if one can be found. Might be new or used. Just let me know before Friday night so I have an excuse to go rummage around their store Saturday morning. :-)

Wayne 
WB4OGM

 

-----Original Message-----
From: John King <k5pgw at yahoo.com>
To: boatanchors <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tue, Nov 15, 2011 3:47 pm
Subject: [Boatanchors] Stereo jack mounting and butchering front panels


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
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