[Boatanchors] What ever happened to the spring load plate clips?

[L L bahr]

Doug,
I haven't seen any of those spring loaded plate caps for a long time.  I don't like using those ceramic jobs as they insulate the metal from radiating heat away from the plate.  That is unless you have some low demand tube not generating a lot of plate heat.  So what I do is usually use the aluminum finned plate caps.  So far my applications provided me enough headroom to use them. They look good too!  If headroom is a real problem, buy some aluminum rod stock.  (The dreaded site has lots of it in different diameters.)  Then cut off a 3/8th inch piece, drill out for your plate cap and the drill a side hole and tap it for a set screw. I guess you cold buy some brass tube stock from a hobby shop, cut a slice in it for expansion and then solder a wire to the cut open brass tube stock.  This would not look as good but it would be fast, inexpensive and work OK.
Lee, w0vt

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Hensley" <w5jv at hotmail.com>
To: "boatanchors mailman.qth.net" <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2014 9:50:18 PM
Subject: [Boatanchors] What ever happened to the spring load plate clips?

Remember the Heath kit & other co's 6146 spring loaded plate clips?
You squeezed the tabs together to remove.  All I can find now is thepush on caps.  Maybe I am not searching the right name.

Doug W5JV/NNN0BXX

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