Hey ya'll... I know this will be a long-shot, but we're looking for some metric female lockscrews that are used on some 9-pin connectors...they're for an AMP connector, but the screws in lockscrew kits they have are not long enough. We need some female M3/.5 screws that have a screw length of .5 inch...the AMP parts have a overall length of .5 inch, but the thread length is too short. The vendor that has supplied this screw in the past is in France, and they're giving us a delivery date of sometime in January...needless to say, there's a lot of people around here having coronaries... we're supposed to deliver product at the beginning of next month. I've searched and searched and can come up with a lot of of lockscrew kits for connectors, but most of them are standard threaded, not metric...and like I said the AMP part is too short...(this is a good lesson in design for manufacturability taking part availability into consideration) Is there ANYPLACE that I might look to find something like this? Someone that might even make the screws for us? It'll be a big order, we need about 14,000 of these jewels... Thanks! (not hoping for much though...) -Steve Gregory- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8d To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet Search previous postings at: www.ipc.org > On-Line Resources & Databases > E-mail Archives Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------