 All right, what's a great search this weekly? Okay a great tune you can hum in the shower so this week You know working on this tester. I needed some aluminum standoffs So these are called male female standoffs, but there's You know there's hex type. There's nylon there's aluminum and I think a lot of people don't realize you can get standoffs and connectors and spacers from digikey and The price is quite good, especially when you're ordering You know 50 or above so I used to you know, I would have kids that have standoffs or spacers in them Check out digikey. You may Not realize it that they have very good prices on on these mechanical connectors. They don't just sell resisters capacitors and chips It's also hardware so There's so many things or how could I find it? I wish there was a segment online each week called just give lady you to do great search Well part of it is showing how to search, but the other part is telling you what you can search for because I think Knowing that is half the battle So let's look for Standoff, maybe we'll do another segment one day called Tell me what to do and then then you can go search for it. Okay, so yeah, there's a whole category called board spacers standoffs fasteners They've got the stuff. Okay, so as usual, let's look for active parts and Let's do normally stocking Okay, so next up you can see that there's like a whole bunch of things here. So let's first Go to the overhead and we'll look at the standoffs that we need so for this tester, I'm using these standoffs and The hole that I'm connecting into is about 0.1 inch and You know, unfortunately, I live in America and so I use imperial and so if it was If I was using millimeters, I'd be like, oh, it's a public one M2 or M2.5 But unfortunately We're stuck with inches and so and so I'll have to tell you that this is an M. So this is a Number 256 Just like totally illogical. You're like, how would you know that you just do so idea to dash 56 threaded Standoff so let's pick that first. So back to the computer and we're going to look at the screw and thread size and There's number two. There's a two and 256. I don't know what's up with that. You can also get metric But I'll say it's sometimes a little easier in the US to get imperial sizes So you stick to stick to one you just always stick to that Something new in the Digi-Key revision that they recently updated their search is you don't have to option click anymore This is like you just click whatever you want. I don't believe that used to be true I think it used to require option click, but I'm so used to this now that that's fine Okay, so that really cut down all of the parts quite a bit one thing that's really cool is I love these surface mount nuts. This is not what I'm looking for but these are awesome I use them on the matrix portal. I've used them on The TFT gizmos and like things, you know things that attach to circuit playgrounds They're pick-and-place surface mountable standoffs that you That you pick in place onto a board and then you can thread into them So it's like and they're like really mechanically strong because they're like bonded, you know Completely anyways All right, so there's all sorts of these are also I think surface mount standoffs But I want ones that are Well, let's go back to the overhead and I'll show you I want ones that are like this style So I want Ones that I screw in from the bottom and then they have these little posts at the top and the post is what Allows me to align The circuit board right so I want to have the the post stick out. So these are called Male female so if you go back to the computer It's gonna we're gonna go back and forth a couple times. So it's called male female threaded Let's apply Okay, so we have now much Better option today. This is what we look we want I love this mouse over because it really tells me like am I even in the right place? And next up we get to choose the materials, you know, I tend to do aluminum But you can use my lawn my lawns on conductive. All right, the next thing is we need to know the height of The standoff. So let's go. Sorry one one last time. We're gonna go back to the overhead I don't really do much than this. So it's fine. Okay. I mean like this is kind of my thing Okay, so we want to know the the distance between Boards, so this is you know, we look at the pogo We it has to basically be like about a less than a half an inch right a half inch or less To make sure that it doesn't bottom out Okay, so back to Peter. We'll do our last selection We have a couple options here we have a seven sixteenths and Then one half so we'll maybe we'll pick these two Apply and then I like aluminum So I'm gonna go with aluminum Yeah, why's that? Because it's like easy to work with the nylon's they can strip. I like that they lose you can really torque the heck out of them There's a couple options here The difference is whether they have iridite plating, which I don't Exactly know why you need it. I've never used iridite, but apparently it's available But we don't need special plating So now we basically have two options. I ended up using This one the seven sixteenths just the exact right size and So here's The thing that is isn't people don't realize is that when you're you know, if you get like just one You know, it's gonna be a dollar because like they don't want to sell you just one. Oh the question Well, I'm just gonna keep us up with comments and more The the jingles in people's heads permanently that was by design good. Yeah, man. He says thanks for sharing this You go once to know is Poga pins the term part we'd search for For those pins not the post like yeah, it's it's actually not They're called spring contacts officially, but I don't know anyone who ever calls them that they're called Sound like it. It sounds like a app in the app store. I know spring contacts spring contacts. Yeah, I'm gonna the new bumble I'm gonna connect with rabbits. Yeah No, so if you want to search for it, you need to search for spring spring contacts Maybe we'll do it next week, but I wanted to do the standoffs first because a lot of people don't realize you can get standoffs so I you know, I used to get standoffs from McMaster and McMaster has like, you know, also every kind of standoff in size When you're buying, you know a couple like five You're gonna they're gonna basically be like 20 cents cheaper McMaster But once you get to 10 pieces the price is basically the same it's within four cents and When you're ordering like a large quantity the price actually is much better than McMaster. So You know, I think a lot of people when they think like hardware. Oh, I'm gonna go to like McMaster car I'm gonna like go to another like, you know, small parts online store but I actually found that for screws and standoffs and You know other like mechanical hardware pieces If as long as you're buying more than 10 the pricing on digi-key will probably be better Then if you bought it from a specific hardware store because I think that the hardware store is like they they're very niche And so they're like well, we can kind of charge whatever we want whereas digi-key is like they really want to get the Large quantity orders like they want you to put this into manufacturing So it's good to keep in mind, you know, once you get to a thousand, you know Pricing is 30 cents. I'm like that's as good as it's gonna get but you're not gonna be able to get standoffs for much less than that Because it's that's what the aluminum costs To machine. So this is the hardware. So this is actually what we buy when we make testers At a fruit we get, you know, a couple hundred of these at a time and we use them to build our standoff Based Pogo testers and that's how every board gets tested day for factory All right, all right, that's the research. That's the great search. Okay