Dimensions of the RCA holes?

[Strikkflypilot]

Hi.
Was wandering if anyone knows how big the diameter of the two holes for
the RCA connectors is.
Just didnt want to desolder anything to find out.

 

[Paul Birkeland]

3/8".

-PB

 

[Strikkflypilot]

Thanks. Will put some Vampires in there, saw some in that dimension.

 

[mcandmar]

Ahh good old imperial measurements. Explains why my collection of RCA jacks didnt fit the S.E.X. amp at first, they were all 10mm vs the 9.5ish hole from ye olde measurement system

 

[Doc B]

Yeah, those imperialist Brits stuck us with it when we were a colony. Then they had the gall to abandon us and switch to the metric system.

I was in college during the lame attempt to switch the US over to the metric system. I think the government's position in the end was that Americans were just too stupid to switch. So now we all have two sets of wrenches in our tool chests.

 

[mcandmar]

We keep two sets of wrenches too for working on old English cars/bikes. Usually a sign that your going to have a bad day rounding off bolts, snapping studs, skinning knuckles, and swearing like a sailor.

 

[Strikkflypilot]

I even got to buy a tapping set.
Its not easy to find UNC or UNF nuts in Norway, so I made some myself with cutting out pieces from an IKEA lid and tapping them

 

[Grainger49]

I'm more impressed that you had the tap.

 

[JamieMcC]

I remember having a discussion with management at a shipyard in Ft Lauderdale up the New River about hauling out a motor yacht the docking plan was in metric and they point blank refused to do the conversion for setting out the blocks for the syncrolift to lift the boat on, quiet happy to charge thousands for the service as well. I ended up doing it for them as it was the only way they would agree to lift the boat at 24 feet wide it only just squeezed in the lift with 6 inches to spare each side.

 

[mcandmar]

I ended up doing it for them as it was the only way they would agree to lift the boat at 24 feet 7.3 meters wide it only just squeezed in the lift with 6 inches 15.2cm to spare each side.

There fixed it for you