[sdiy] mouting of miniature toggle switches

[harry]

One way is to use (from the inside of the box...)

Switch
Hex nut
lockwasher
anti-rotation washer (optional)
PANEL
hex nut or dress nut.

You tighten the nut from the BACK... use a really thin wrench.
I ground down a small ignition wrench to the thickness of the
nut.

The dress nuts come in two varieties. I'd use the ones that are not
threaded all the way through. Tighten them finger tight from the
 front... then wrench from behind.

If they are really close together... this is HARD to do

H^) harry

Rob Mantel wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> For quite some time now I've been wondering what the correct way is to mount
> small toggle switches on a frontpanel. I'm talking about the miniature ones
> that mount in a 1/4" hole.
>
> Looking at the pictures in the datasheets, it looks like (from outside to
> inside): hex nut, panel, locking ring, lockwasher, hex nut.
>
> One problem with this, when you tighten the hex nut at the outside, how do
> you prevent it from damaging the panel?
>
> Easy solution would be to add an extra flat washer under the outside hex
> nut, but these are never? supplied with the switch, and I havn't been able
> to find a source for small washers that would fit. You would want washers
> with a hole of 1/4", and an outside diameter of only 3/8".
>
> Anyone know another way to do this? Or have a source for the washers that
> IMHO should be supplied with the switches?
>
> Thanks,
> Rob

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