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Have you tried Newegg and looked for some sets?For years I was a system builder.
Not professionally, although I know I did a pretty decent job of it, for myself and the fam.
I probably built something like ten or twelve machines over the years, maybe thirteen.
Got out of it around Windows 7 and have moved a couple of times since then and now I've lost all the little glass jars I used to keep all my computer screws and widgets in. Oh, they might still be somewhere, like in "the 908723498763549874598745th box I finally look at in the garage."
When I am eighty-four years old I'll find them, right? :lol:
I bought a server case many years ago with the intent of putting a new mobo in it and I'm stymied by the standoffs having some weird thread size or pitch that doesn't match the screws from any motherboard I know of and it's the first time I've ever encountered that.
I'm hoping someone just has a couple of extra bags or jars of miscellaneous motherboard standoffs and screws that I can give them twenty bucks for because I just don't even have a clue how to match these and I'd rather just put in new standoffs that will accept standard mobo screws.
Does this sound strange? It should, it's the first time I've ever run across this kind of oddball problem.
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At least I didn't pay much for the case, five bucks...it's a nice big fat case with rack mount ears which is perfect for me because I have a rack with one machine in it already.
So? Anyone want to make an easy twenty bucks by mailing me a bag or jar from their junk drawer?
Jeff H in Whittier CA
Have you tried Newegg and looked for some sets?
For years I was a system builder.
Not professionally, although I know I did a pretty decent job of it, for myself and the fam.
I probably built something like ten or twelve machines over the years, maybe thirteen.
Got out of it around Windows 7 and have moved a couple of times since then and now I've lost all the little glass jars I used to keep all my computer screws and widgets in. Oh, they might still be somewhere, like in "the 908723498763549874598745th box I finally look at in the garage."
When I am eighty-four years old I'll find them, right? :lol:
I bought a server case many years ago with the intent of putting a new mobo in it and I'm stymied by the standoffs having some weird thread size or pitch that doesn't match the screws from any motherboard I know of and it's the first time I've ever encountered that.
I'm hoping someone just has a couple of extra bags or jars of miscellaneous motherboard standoffs and screws that I can give them twenty bucks for because I just don't even have a clue how to match these and I'd rather just put in new standoffs that will accept standard mobo screws.
Does this sound strange? It should, it's the first time I've ever run across this kind of oddball problem.
View attachment 67258504
At least I didn't pay much for the case, five bucks...it's a nice big fat case with rack mount ears which is perfect for me because I have a rack with one machine in it already.
So? Anyone want to make an easy twenty bucks by mailing me a bag or jar from their junk drawer?
Jeff H in Whittier CA
If there is a model number somewhere on your case you could look it up. Maybe you'll find a listing for your screws there.
Time to get out your taps buddy, and tap them out to the next larger ANS size.For years I was a system builder.
Not professionally, although I know I did a pretty decent job of it, for myself and the fam.
I probably built something like ten or twelve machines over the years, maybe thirteen.
Got out of it around Windows 7 and have moved a couple of times since then and now I've lost all the little glass jars I used to keep all my computer screws and widgets in. Oh, they might still be somewhere, like in "the 908723498763549874598745th box I finally look at in the garage."
When I am eighty-four years old I'll find them, right? :lol:
I bought a server case many years ago with the intent of putting a new mobo in it and I'm stymied by the standoffs having some weird thread size or pitch that doesn't match the screws from any motherboard I know of and it's the first time I've ever encountered that.
I'm hoping someone just has a couple of extra bags or jars of miscellaneous motherboard standoffs and screws that I can give them twenty bucks for because I just don't even have a clue how to match these and I'd rather just put in new standoffs that will accept standard mobo screws.
Does this sound strange? It should, it's the first time I've ever run across this kind of oddball problem.
View attachment 67258504
At least I didn't pay much for the case, five bucks...it's a nice big fat case with rack mount ears which is perfect for me because I have a rack with one machine in it already.
So? Anyone want to make an easy twenty bucks by mailing me a bag or jar from their junk drawer?
Jeff H in Whittier CA
Hell, he can just tap the current holes out to the next ANS size, and be done with it. It's a mobo, not an aircraft wing!PITA solutions.
Simple enough. There are cheap zinc gel fillers that will seal all holes in the case if need be. If not use slightly larger screws and re-drill the holes as needed, or add new female receptor holes where needed. No reason to make yourself crazy identifying and finding former used sized screws. It doesn't take great skills, merely quality measuring for spacing location and quality drill bits. Most cases are made from aluminum, plastics, occasionally light steal. For any material other than steel I use:
https://www.amazon.com/Electric-Pre...ocphy=9004414&hvtargid=pla-570328993810&psc=1
If steel, I use my more powerful Dewitt and hardened precision diamond head bits. About $20 for multiple sized kits of about 8-10 standard small sized bits.
I just finished rebuilding an inner steel framed Fender Twin Reverb, from an unknown pre-CBS date, identifiable as such by the shaping of the Fender plate metal label from that period. No way to find replacements for cracked bakelite tube boards. Only solution, new generic boards that needed new wiring, relocated mounting screws and custom braces, hand wired coils, analog attenuators, cast ceramic dials and other minutiae small parts. Hand wired replacement coils for the speakers, and I built a ferris fluoride injector vacuum sealer for the tweeters. I wasn't interested in finding original screws, for sizes no one at Fender could pull out of the archives. My concern was finding Chinese tubes and transformers that would create that great Fender sound. I got to use long dormant precision soldering skill for the first time in two decades. Damn thing weighs a ton like the originals, but it has that sweet growl, and my nephew who plays professional is eternally grateful. His original Fender Twin Reverb gave up the ghost this past winter on the road. He believes this refurb sounds better. His ears are better than mine, with youth. I also built him a custom cart for it. Saves wear and tear from clumsy weak roadies.
Hell, he can just tap the current holes out to the next ANS size, and be done with it. It's a mobo, not an aircraft wing!
But on another note, why do I get the feeling you'll know what this insignia below meant on T-shirts, back in the 60's/70's?
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Hell, he can just tap the current holes out to the next ANS size, and be done with it. It's a mobo, not an aircraft wing!
But on another note, why do I get the feeling you'll know what this insignia below meant on T-shirts, back in the 60's/70's?
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Geezus, man. You tickled some neurons with those names, that hadn't been used in quite a few decades!Excellent vacuum tubes.
I used to actually have the mad skillz to do this stuff.
I can't count how many Heathkits I built, or old Dynaco and DynaKit amps I've built and rebuilt.
But it's been years...many.
Excellent vacuum tubes.
I used to actually have the mad skillz to do this stuff.
I can't count how many Heathkits I built, or old Dynaco and DynaKit amps I've built and rebuilt.
But it's been years...many.
A Dyna amp, preAmp with AR-1 speakers, an AR turntable. Audio heaven. Then the Holy Grail, a Grundig FM tuner. Getting lectured by mom for wasting money, until coming home and finding her slow dancing with dad to John Coltrane playing Summertime with Mingus on Bass, Monk on the ivories, Elvin Jones on the skins on dad's new Revox. That mono tape never made it to vinyl. 2 hours of Gershwin covers free with the Revox.
A few of the later Revox models in the 60's copied Concord's habit of using globs of epoxy on the capstan flywheel to balance it, an idea which backfired spectacularly on them. I used to have those Revox decks brought to me and I'd pull out the flywheel and machine the balance divots into the flywheel till it was perfect.
Easy hundred bucks back then.
I couldn't believe such reputable manufacturers were cutting corners like that.
Getting back to the thread, I am convinced that this NetProMax outfit was some fly by night bunch who didn't bother with compatibility. They probably didn't care nor did they have to. The case used to house a proprietary 16-channel digital video security system and these units probably had a lifespan of ten to twenty years, then they'd get tossed in the dumpster.
They probably cranked out tens of thousands of these units and never had to service them because they were amazingly simple.
For years I was a system builder.
Not professionally, although I know I did a pretty decent job of it, for myself and the fam.
I probably built something like ten or twelve machines over the years, maybe thirteen.
Got out of it around Windows 7 and have moved a couple of times since then and now I've lost all the little glass jars I used to keep all my computer screws and widgets in. Oh, they might still be somewhere, like in "the 908723498763549874598745th box I finally look at in the garage."
When I am eighty-four years old I'll find them, right? :lol:
I bought a server case many years ago with the intent of putting a new mobo in it and I'm stymied by the standoffs having some weird thread size or pitch that doesn't match the screws from any motherboard I know of and it's the first time I've ever encountered that.
I'm hoping someone just has a couple of extra bags or jars of miscellaneous motherboard standoffs and screws that I can give them twenty bucks for because I just don't even have a clue how to match these and I'd rather just put in new standoffs that will accept standard mobo screws.
Does this sound strange? It should, it's the first time I've ever run across this kind of oddball problem.
At least I didn't pay much for the case, five bucks...it's a nice big fat case with rack mount ears which is perfect for me because I have a rack with one machine in it already.
So? Anyone want to make an easy twenty bucks by mailing me a bag or jar from their junk drawer?
Jeff H in Whittier CA
Excellent vacuum tubes.
I used to actually have the mad skillz to do this stuff.
I can't count how many Heathkits I built, or old Dynaco and DynaKit amps I've built and rebuilt.
But it's been years...many.
Did you know that vacuum tubes are still produced in Asia? I bought a nice Cathedral Radio at a garage sale with an NRA (National Recovery Administration) sticker on the chassis. It was a joy to get it working.
Also still being produced in Russia last I checked.
The best quality audio tubes available. Rebranded and sold by Ruby here. Ruby's clients are boutique high end audio companies like MacIntosh, Audio Heaven (a refurbisher) and so on.
Corning still owns a tube plant in Brazil, but the quality of product sucks. Mostly used in micrometers and industrial microwave ovens.
McIntosh, for God's sake!
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