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<DIV>In a message dated 1/16/2004 11:31:02 AM Eastern Standard Time, Eric.Henderson@gartner.com writes:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial>Lamar Blair and Jerry Stebbins sell a very nice nylon insert that grabs the 4-40 very well indeed. A very neat homemade option is to use plastic water pipe. One that has too big a diameter. What you do is cut off a 1/2" wide piece. Then cut out enough of the "ring" so that it can be compressed and pushed into the wing tube. A touch of CA and you have a section that can be threaded and will "grab" your $4000 screw.</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
<DIV>I have been using the plastic water pipe method for five years. However, I don't CA it in the wingtube. Should the threads be stripped at a contest, it can be pulled out, rotated a few degrees and redrilled and threaded in less than ten minutes.</DIV>
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<DIV>As far as simple is concerned, one 4-40 screw can't get any simpler. Any one who wants snap on devices is looking for instant gradifacation, not simplicity!</DIV>
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<DIV>Robert Gainey</DIV></BODY></HTML>