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Author Topic: Keyed adaptor for Strong MUT? Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 05-20-2003 07:48 PM                     Yeah, and some older racks (e.g. AMPEX) and some relay racks use 12-24 screws...a size that has fallen out of favor. Other trivia for techs...DTS chose the less popular (except to the restroom world) 10-24 for their reader mounting. Steve  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-20-2003 08:07 PM                     Okay! Okay! Whatever fucking screw is found in the majority of your everyday, ordinary, run-of-the-mill sound rack! Honestly, I can't remember numbers that are so similar like that. You could tell me right now and five minutes from now I couldn't tell me! 10-24... 10-28... 10-32... People always get pissed off at me for forgetting such seemingly trivial things. Don't even get me started remembering people's NAMES! I have to write things like that down. Usually I have a whole shit load of files saved on my laptop computer with notes to myself about shit I have to remember. People think I'm nuts because I take the damn thing with me everywhere I go! If I ever lost the damn thing or have a hard drive crash I'd be LOST! My whole BRAIN is stored on that thing! Usually, after I use a piece of information enough times I start to remember it 90% of the time but I still find myself getting things like apect ratios all bass-ackwards! So... If you don't have an old Ampex rack or if you're not trying to secure a DTS reader to its mounting or if you don't have some OTHER strange permutation of equipment... take a freakin' screw out of your sound rack and try it in that hole. It OUGHT to fit! If/when it does, take that screw to the hardware store, stick it in a screw gauge and buy a set screw that matches. That's literally what I did to get the ones I have in my makeup table! (No hard feelings... REALLY! )  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 05-29-2003 03:58 PM                        Well Randy your suggestion works. EXCEPT that the screws like to fall down as we are breaking down normal reels, and that makes a weird sound and can stunt the operation. So it would be best I guess if I left them out completely until needed. And yes, the thread is fine... I didn't get the wrong screw!  |  IP: Logged

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