RadioBanter - View Single Post - Color-matching knobs, banana jacks, wire etc.

Scott Dorsey

wrote:

Looking in the Digikey catalog they list "Emerson"/"Johnson" as the
maker of some banana plugs and jacks available in ten colors. If I
could get matching colored knobs and maybe even test lead wire, I
would be so so happy.

I believe Kilo sells anodized knobs in a few different colors, still, and
that Pomona Electronics should have a few colors of banana jack.

Any leads (including just "how to paint random knobs in matching
colors") would be greatly appreciated.

Go to the auto parts store and get cans of automotive lacquer. It gives
a nice even finish on generic aluminum knobs and comes in more colors
than you can imagine.

In case nobody else has figured it out yet, this is for a super-duper
bench tube tester that currently is just a bunch of stuff scattered
across my bench but which in my head I could turn into one mega-super
tube tester/curve tracer. Black would of course be ground, and I
suppose the two filaments should be green, and maybe the cathode can
be black, but I still need three other colors (plate, grid, screen)
and at the moment can only name two, so seeing a catalog page with a
color-coded lineup of everything would so make my vision come true!

Filaments are brown. Red is plate. Grid and screen are orange and
yellow but I forget which is which. There's a RETMA standard for all
this stuff somewhere.
--scott
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