Subject: Re: Kinda OT?: Looking for rackmount screw sets....
To: None <classiccmp@classiccmp.org, port-vax@netbsd.org>
From: Carl Lowenstein <cdl@mpl.ucsd.edu>
List: port-vax
Date: 04/15/2002 10:54:23
> From port-vax-owner-clowenst=ucsd.edu@netbsd.org Mon Apr 15 08:53 PDT 2002
> Delivered-To: port-vax@netbsd.org
> From: David Woyciesjes <DAW@yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu>
> To: "NetBSD/Vax Mail List \(E-mail\)" <port-vax@netbsd.org>,
>         "classiccmp@classiccmp.org \(E-mail\)" <classiccmp@classiccmp.org>
> Subject: Kinda OT?: Looking for rackmount screw sets....
> Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 12:00:59 -0400
> 
> 	Well, I just acquired a 5' x 3' x 2' IBM AS400 drive cabinet. F--n
> heavy!
> 	Now, to mount equipment in it, I need to find some more of those
> clip-on T-nut kinda things, which clip on around the hole in the rails, so
> you then use the supplies screws to mount your equipment. Some older DEC
> racks used the same thing.
> 	Anybody know where I can get a dozen or two of these screw mount
> sets? For a reasonable price?	And what are they called?

Tinnerman nuts.  Google search returns 1350 hits.

   carl
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        carl lowenstein         marine physical lab     u.c. san diego
                                                  clowenstein@ucsd.edu