[sdiy] Tool for fitting 3.5mm jack sockets

[Harry Bissell Jr]

Mouser has two sizes

382-0004 (4mm nut) and
382-0006 (6mm nut)

(too bad your UK but there is good news...)

OTOH I bought this tool and it is a piece
of sh!t.  I (in the mean time) made my own
with a wide blade screwdriver which I filed
a slot to accomodate the jack.  

It works very well if you cut the slot carefully.

H^) harry

--- Seb Francis <seb at burnit.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm wondering if anyone has ever seen a tool
> designed for tightening the 
> knurled metal ring that fixes some types of jack
> socket like the 3.5mm 
> one in this picture:
> http://www.rapidelectronics.co.uk/i/20013001.jpg
> 
> I'm having to fit very many of these to a plastic
> panel and it's very 
> difficult to do so with pliers without:
> (a) marking the plastic around the metal ring by
> holding the ring too low
> or
> (b) making a big scratch in the plastic panel when
> the pliers slip off 
> because the ring is held too high
> 
> There are 2 slots in the metal ring, so there must
> be some kind of tool 
> that fits this, but I have looked everywhere and
> can't seem to find 
> one.  Any help would be much appreciated :)
> 
> Thanks,
> Seb
> 
> 
>