PLAN B analog blog

I'm totally down for a more reliable jack.

Are these the same nuts that Wiard and Metalbox use (the ones that require that
cylindrical-with-two-prongs nutdriver thingy)?







--- "(i think you can figure that out)" <peter@buzzclick-music.com> wrote:

> Excuse me?
> 
> Guys -
> 
> I have found a replacement jack for Cliff which looks/acts the same as
> far as the user experience, sans the annoying intermittentcy
> associated with Cliff jacks.  Saints be praised.
> 
> We already have a few thousand of these jacks in stock.  A matter of
> fact, most of our new products will require them in that the controls
> are spaced too closely together to use the Cliffs.
> 
> One thing:  These new jacks come with round nuts, not hex nuts.  I
> have been looking in to having hex nuts made and have found a few
> offshore manufacturers willing to take my relatively small quantities
> (15,000k), but I have become increasing suspect of some of them, being
> very aggressive in asking for the money up front, requesting the funds
> by placed into personal accounts, this sort of thing.  Basically I'm
> smelling a rat.
> 
> So I pose the question to you all:
> 
> Would you mind terribly the use of round nuts on jacks?  At last in
> the interim and until I can find a reliable source whom I feel is
> being more forthright with me in the negotiations.  Personally I don't
> think they don't look bad at all.  Just picture a Cliff jack with a
> small round bezel around it as apposed to a hex nut.
> 
> I've set up a poll to tally your feelings on this entitled:  ROUND NUTS?
> 
> lemme know and thanks.
> 
> 
> 
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