Re: Another Alpine Back From the Grave!

From: W. Ray Gibbons (gibbons(at)northpole.med.uvm.edu)
Date: Thu Sep 14 1995 - 15:39:21 CDT


> >Also...does anyone have any suggestions of how to get the Alpine scripts
> >back on. I got replacment connectors but it seems too difficult to push the
> >pins on the script back into the v shaped connectors. I broke off one of
> >the pins by trying to force it back in.
>

I don't like the push-on connectors. If the pins on badges or other trim
are around 1/8 inch (I guess if they are any standard size) you can get a
sheet-metal "nut" that spirals onto the pin cutting a shallow thread as
you go. It holds tight, in fact does a better job than the standard
clips, yet is easy to remove. I think the ones I've gotten are called
speed nuts or speedy nuts--something like that. It's the sort of thing
you get to hold the wheels on cheap barbeque pits and such, in miniature.

   Ray Gibbons Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
                Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
                gibbons(at)northpole.med.uvm.edu (802) 656-8910



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