| The Breakroom > The Water Cooler |
| 1" x 20 tpi conduit thread ???? |
| << < (2/3) > >> |
| Pete W.:
--- Quote from: 75Plus on January 28, 2014, 11:27:57 AM ---SNIP As a side note, I know that we have several Ham Radio operators on the board and the antenna connectors for co-axial cable are UNEF threaded. I have however ran into some PL 259 connectors that were made with metric threads. They looked the same as 5/8-20 threads but would not thread onto the SO-239 socket. --- End quote --- Hi there, 75Plus, I've just done a search for 'Amphenol SO239' and the best data sheet I found quotes 5/8" by 24 tpi UNEF. I wrote 'just' but it was actually an hour ago - I was called to dinner and left this reply un-posted! In my Amateur Radio days, I often encountered pseudo PL259s and SO 239s of Far Eastern origin. Their threads were 5/8" by 1 mm pitch, their bodies were die-cast from zinc alloy and plated. I think the insulators were recycled washing-up bowls! Sometimes they would cross-mate with 'proper' PL259s and SO 239s and sometimes they wouldn't! Fortunately, from dismantling many items from the war surplus market, I had built up a good stock of genuine Amphenol UHF connectors, real brass, silver-plated all over and with insulators of mica-loaded Bakelite. |
| Chuck in E. TN:
For what it's worth, I grew up in the New York town where that Amphenol connector was made. My mother and father retired from that plsnt, and my youngest brother still works there. I am also retired USAF and installed/repaired many of those connectors on aircraft, including safety wireing them. Chuck |
| 75Plus:
--- Quote from: Pete W. on January 28, 2014, 02:26:59 PM --- I've just done a search for 'Amphenol SO239' and the best data sheet I found quotes 5/8" by 24 tpi UNEF. --- End quote --- Hi Pete I stand corrected. I was trusting a 79 YO memory and I have found that it can be dangerous. :doh: I just went to the shop and looked at the tap and die that I have had in this thread for well over 20 years. 5/8-24 UNEF. One would think the specs would be burned into my brain as the info was laser ed into the tools!! |
| awemawson:
This is what the original question was all about: A/ Amphenol don't make a converter to fix flexible conduit to the rear of these connectors |
| awemawson:
B/ Andrew Mawson does :ddb: |
| Navigation |
| Message Index |
| Next page |
| Previous page |