U Bars for tube protection

[craigmillard]

Hey Guys,

Where you all getting your protection bars for the tubes?

Im in the UK and cant get any smaller than 96mm center to center!!

Rick what do you use on your mini amps?

cheers
Craig

[Perrow]

I believe he's hitting the hardware stores kitchen department looking for nice door handles.

[craigmillard]

yer i have tried taking a look in the stores for kitchen hardware but they all seem to be standard sizes, none of which is small enough for width-ways on a 1590BB:(
needs to be 90mm center to center or so...

[jimosity]

What about picking up a piece of rod at a hardware store in the thickness you want, then bending it to your needed size and use a tap/die set to thread the ends of it, then put a nut on the inside of the enclosure to hold it in place?

Or an easier (but not quite as pretty) piece of threaded rod with a gender changer on the ends and a screw thru the enclosure (like this)

[Processaurus]

I believe they are called "wire pulls".

[frequencycentral]

I get mine from B&Q. Not in the kitchen section, rather the general hardware section. About £10.48 for six, 64mm centre to centre IIR

[amptramp]

Electronics stores sell these as pull handles for rack-mounted equipment.  Hammond sells them as the 1427 series.  Check it out:

http://www.hammondenclosuresales.com/lifting_pull_handles.htm

[electrosonic]

Check out the Keystone electronics catalog - I think you can order them through mouser.

http://www.keyelco.com/

I also think these tube guards look nice too...

http://www.aliexpress.com/product-gs/328829488-Free-Shipping-Tube-Guard-Protector-PreAmp-12AX7-12AU7-6922-5687-ECC-Silver-wholesalers.html.

A.

[pruttelherrie]

I also think these tube guards look nice too...

http://www.aliexpress.com/product-gs/328829488-Free-Shipping-Tube-Guard-Protector-PreAmp-12AX7-12AU7-6922-5687-ECC-Silver-wholesalers.html.

For the people who cannot get these (like me: ali express doesn't ship to the Netherlands), you can also get these from tube-town or (in bigger quantities) from mableaudio. I'm sure there are more suppliers.

Iwan