The external antenna jack on the Totally Featureless Clock is, by necessity, recessed way down in a hole (because I can’t get to the inside of the now-finished half-inch-thick case to gnaw it out from there). Perforce, that puts the locking nut out of reach.
Solution: a pin spanner wrench. I’m sure they’re available commercially, but what’s the fun in that?
The male threaded part of the jack is 0.230 inch OD, the nut is 0.313 OD, and the notches are 0.030 wide and 0.020 deep. Raw material is about two inches of 5/16-inch air-hardening drill rod, not that I’m actually going to heat treat it for this application.
Face off the end and drill the guts out with a 15/64-inch drill.
Grab it in the 3-jaw chuck bolted firmly to the table, then mill off anything that isn’t a pin. Don’t grab it in the milling vise, which doesn’t have enough oomph to hold a slick steel cylinder in place; don’t ask how I know this.
Set Z=0 at the top surface of the spanner-to-be and XY = 0 on the axis of the cylinder, of course.
Manual CNC, feeding the commands into EMC2’s MDI slot and then mouse-clicking the stored commands to avoid reduce typing errors. For my setup, Y=±0.171 to produce the 30-mil pin and X=±0.4 to clear on both sides.
After cutting the first side at 3 k RPM, feed 2 inches/min, and 10 mils per pass, I whacked the other side off in one giant 20-mil bite. I’m such a sissy…
A bit of heatshrink tubing improves the griptivity and it’s all good.
This is the sort of thing you do once, drop in the baggie with the rest of the connector nuts, and use for years thereafter. I should’a done it years ago, but I’ve been able to not quite butcher the nuts with a needle-nose pliers…
[Update: It turns out a commercial nut driver was available, at least in one special shop in one special place, but no longer. For my delicate uses, that shaft into the jack isn’t really needed.]
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So that’s what those notches on the nuts are for… I always wondered what sort of tool one was supposed to use since needle-nose pliers tend to slip a lot. I really need a place to put a small lathe.
needle-nose pliers tend to slip a lot
Ahem…
But, yeah, I hate it when that happens, too. The problem is that every different nut requires a different driver, so either you make do with pliers or accumulate a drawer full of drivers.
I have a couple of these, so the situation is improving…