Adrian wrote.... In the six or so VT100's I've had open, about half of them used a plunger-head captive faster that was a fairly standard design. The other half used a totally oddball thing I've never seen before (although I suspect you could use either one). So yes, this place has the ones used in the Vt100. Bear in mind the items I'm talking about have a large plugner you grab with two fingers under, thumb over. These are not tiny "rivets". Jay

On 13 Apr 2005 at 18:25, Jay West wrote: If I was stuck on an deserted island with one catalog, and UPS could do air drops, the McMaster catalog is the one I'd pick. Their paper catalog runs to 3500+ pages (7.5 pounds), their nearest warehouse to me is 120 miles away, and I can place an order for darn-near anything at 8 PM one night and have it in my hands by noon the next day with ground shipping. My last order of 13 items included case-hardened flat washers for milling machine clamps, a threaded ball valve, a corner-rounding end mill, a tube of acrylic cement, one foot of 2-inch by 5-inch rectangular aluminum tube, a needle file, and a lithium battery. Everything was in stock, and they arrived the next day all in the same box. I'll be ordering several types of foam rubber to restore my HP 7925 disc drive shortly (they list a dozen pages of foam rubbers). My experience with them over a number of years has been uniformly excellent. Their warehouse must be something else (unless there is more call for corner-rounding end mills and rectangular tubing than I imagine :-). -- Dave