[Boatanchors] Need Jones Plug for Hammarlund HX-500 Transmitter - Update

[Dave Brown]

My first reaction looking at the pictures is that it is not a jones socket 
at all but something else that looks similar- the upper row of horizontal 
slots look very narrow while the lower row of vertical pins looks about the 
usual size for a jones plug with that many pins. But that might just be the 
photos. So does a pin from a jones plug fit both rows in the socket? We knew 
the connectors down here as Howard Jones connectors-they were widely used in 
all sorts of telco equipment. I think Cinch bought the original company out 
at some stage.  Many of the connectors down here were of UK origin- Painton 
was a major manufacturer of the jones pattern connector over there-maybe 
they still are. I have quite a number of small size spare jones connectors 
(4,6,8,12 pins) but not that many of the higher pin count ones and certainly 
nothing like the one in the picture.
 73
 Dave
ZL3FJ



----- Original Message ----- 
From: <hwhall at compuserve.com>
To: <tractorb at ihug.co.nz>; <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2014 11:29 AM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Need Jones Plug for Hammarlund HX-500 
Transmitter - Update



 This link on youtube that gives a fair look at the connector at about 33 
seconds into the (no sound) video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybJ1LsCU0xg

It'd be lots better if we had a hi-res closeup photo with a ruler scale laid 
by it so sizes can be judged.

Wayne
WB4OGM



-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Brown <tractorb at ihug.co.nz>
To: boatanchors <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sun, Dec 14, 2014 3:10 pm
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Need Jones Plug for Hammarlund HX-500 
Transmitter - Update


How about a picture of the socket?
Cutting down a larger plug has already been suggested but a picture would
still assist re selection of one to work on.  As a point of interest, 20/30
years back, the local market here in ZL  had lots of asian sourced look
alikes with many that had odd pin configurations but otherwise, to a cursory
glance, were a jones type plug/socket combo.  But they were not, and no way
would they interchange with the real thing.
 73
 Dave, ZL3FJ