Off topic! - press-on caps

[jhiker]

Waaaay off topic I know, but does anybody remember 'Knoblets'..?

They are (were) knurled plastic caps that pushed on to socket head cap screws, (and hex head too, I seem to remember), instantly transforming them into a really handy thumb screw. You could get round knurled, wing type, scalloped etc. and they were really very useful.
I can't remember who made them and the nearest thing I can find these days is the 'Press-Loc' from Micro-Plastics Intl.
I suspect I'd have to buy more than I'd ever use. Anybody aware of a (UK) supplier of small quantities for metric screws?
Thanks,

 

[DavidJ]

Jeff,

For standard screws in modest quantities- take look at RS. They also have lots of knobs with various shaped heads and threaded shanks.
http://uk.rs-online.com/web/search/...unt=420&Ne=4294957561&N=4294963412+4294956983

Other options - try Misumi for knobs
http://www.misumi.de/www/catalogues/faenglish/eucatalogue/pdf/40/e_fa_08_2279_2280.pdf

RS is very handy if you have an account - free, next day delivery.

Another option - buy a copy of Model Engineer and look though the advertisers, you'll probably find several suppliers of small quantities of fasteners (though metric is less common in Model Engineering).

Finally - Yellow Pages, most reasonable sized towns have at least one fastener (nut & bolt) specialist.

 

[DavidJ]

Maybe I mis-understood, perhaps you already have screws and are looking for low volumes of these push on caps.....

 

[jhiker]

Maybe I mis-understood, perhaps you already have screws and are looking for low volumes of these push on caps.....

That's right..
I was looking to buy the caps separately.

 

[MilesH]

Not UK, but this is another source:
http://www.shear-loc.com/knobs.htm
http://www.shear-loc.com/rosette.htm

 

[W. Wagelaar]

perhaps you can take a look at http://www.skiffy.com/docs/menufr.cfm?I ... QwodEGSmSQ

 

[W. Wagelaar]

or better the English version of the site http://www.skiffy.com/docs/menufr.cfm?t ... =start.cfm

 

[IRV]

Go to ThomasNet.com to find just about anything. Reid Supply Co has the push on screw knobs, even the CAD drawing files.

Irv

 

[jhiker]

Thanks. Sorted now.

 

[rogert]

I remember these... I had what could have been a serious accident with one! It shattered while I was pressing it on (afterwards we thought we'd got imperial and metric sizes mixed in together) and a fragment punched a hole out of one of my contact lenses. Apart from surface scratching my eye was ok, thanks to the lens. Wear safety glasses!