Need help finding something

Keith Hilton · Post by **Keith Hilton** » 11 Mar 2004 6:59 pm

I have been looking on the internet for 1/4 mono audio plugs. Plugs being the industry name for "male". All of the plugs I have been able to locate have very short threads that hold the cord covers on. I am looking for 1/4 plugs that have longer thread, say a 1/4 of an inch longer. It is no problem to find 1/4 inch mono audio jacks. Jacks being the industry name for "female".
Jacks with longer threads are made for pannel boxes that have thick sides. I suppose not many plugs are mounted on pannel boxes with thick sides. That is probably why I am having trouble locating them on the internet. Can anyone locate me some 1/4 mono audio plugs with longer threads? I would also like to have the nuts that fit the threads, instead of the cord cover. THANKS!

Bill Crook · Post by **Bill Crook** » 12 Mar 2004 3:57 am

Hello Keith.............

I may be dateing myself here but I think you will have to search old military and Ma-Bell parts houses for these items. I remember these plugs very well.

C Dixon · Post by **C Dixon** » 12 Mar 2004 9:53 am

Bill is correct.

This may indeed be a long hunt Keith. This applies also to the quality of the plugs and/or jacks. The days of A T & T's "100 yr" quality design factor, is gone like the "old west".

carl

Note: only amongst musicians do the terms "jack" and "plug" get reversed

For the non technician and/or musician the terms have little if ANY meaning. For they can mean anything the eye of the beholder suggests

Dave Kocher · Post by **Dave Kocher** » 12 Mar 2004 10:01 am

Try www.switchcraft.com/
Switchcraft makes some quality versions of the phone plug and jack that you won't find anywhere else.
BTW, they have a phone plug with a shorting switch built in that opens only when the plug is inserted in the jack all the way. Eliminates popping.

Michael Brebes · Post by **Michael Brebes** » 15 Mar 2004 8:14 am

If the Switchcraft plugs don't have long enough thread depth, you might want to consider threading the hole on the panel box so that you could screw the plug right into the side of the box. Then you wouldn't need a retaining nut. Your only other choice might be to countersink the panel box side so that you have enough room for a nut.

Keith Hilton · Post by **Keith Hilton** » 15 Mar 2004 11:41 am

Thanks fellows for the suggestions. I was raised up on a farm, and a "Jack" was a male donkey, and a female donkey was called a "Jenny". I had a terrible time remembering that a Plug was male, and Jack was female, in the world of electronics. The pannel box sides I am wanting to mount the plug on are real thin. I only need 1/8 to 1/4 of an inch more threads to get a lock washer on. Thus far I have not found one that will work.

John Bresler · Post by **John Bresler** » 15 Mar 2004 7:04 pm

Keith:

You might try Graybar Electric. They are to the Independent Telephone Companies what Western Electric used to be to "MA Bell". They stock a ton of stuff.