Bigtone
181 posts
Mar 25, 2013
8:00 PM
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Please someone make a switchcraft connector that has a smaller tip. If someone made one with the smaller threaded tips then they could easily be installed on 520, 440 and 707's. The standard ones basically slide right into a jt-30 but doin the shures can be a pain in the arrrssss. It bothers me you have to drill out so much metal on these things. Why have these things not been made. Id buy 100 of them if they were
Last Edited by Bigtone on Mar 25, 2013 8:01 PM
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shbamac
274 posts
Mar 25, 2013
8:09 PM
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Switchcraft does make a smaller one. But it's to small for the bullets I think. Switchcraft 5501FX
http://www.switchcraft.com/productsummary.aspx?Parent=538
Last Edited by shbamac on Mar 25, 2013 8:16 PM
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Jehosaphat
463 posts
Mar 25, 2013
8:12 PM
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I know what you mean Bigtone but,
In a freewheelin' capitalist system if someone isn't doing it already it generally means thats there's no money to be made from it.
Be interesting to know what the world wide market would be for smaller connectors?
250 a year?I don't know.
Good idea though.
@Shbamac
i didn't know that those things existed,interesting.
Last Edited by Jehosaphat on Mar 25, 2013 8:15 PM
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shbamac
275 posts
Mar 25, 2013
8:27 PM
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The last pic is the 2501F, a Japanese connector and the 5501FX. I have installed a few in the Shure 540 and a few lapel mics. The male end is so small that you need to use something like Mogami W2319 cable. It works but I don't know how well it would hold up for gigging. I use it with the Shure or an EV lapel mic to take to stores to test amps usually.
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Bigtone
182 posts
Mar 25, 2013
8:42 PM
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i dont mean smaller connectors i mean the same size where the cable screws on but a smaller threaded part that enters the mic. just makin it easier to install on the shures.
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Kingley
2459 posts
Mar 25, 2013
11:12 PM
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Bigtone - It's very early in the morning this side of the pond so I could be all wrong on this, but here's a thought. Unless you're cutting a thread into the mic shell to screw in the connector and screwing it in. Then I presume you're either using some kind of glue and/or a grub screw to hold the 2501MP in place? If you are using the latter method(s) why not file off the threads on the shaft of the 2501MP and then it might fit easier into the shell.
Last Edited by Kingley on Mar 25, 2013 11:13 PM
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Bigtone
183 posts
Mar 26, 2013
9:28 AM
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@Kingley
I was just dreamin for one to be made that didnt really need any modification to the shell. I use both methods for the connectors. Both work good and I have never had any problems with them. But on my prewar jt30's I use the connectors were smaller than the original hole so I had to use jb weld but I think damn it was so easy to install those haha
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Greg Heumann
2075 posts
Mar 26, 2013
8:16 PM
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Switchcraft 2501MP connectors may just "slide in" to a JT30 hole - but they don't STAY there. That hole is TOO BIG. And no, opoxying the connector just doesn't cut it. A set screw won't hold it either.
Shure bullet holes are small enough to properly drill (the right size is a #Q drill) and tap. That's not difficult if you have the right tools. It can be downright dangerous if you don't. And this is the ONLY way to properly secure the connector if it cannot be backed up by a nut on the other side (and it can't in shure Bullets or JT30's.)
As far as I'm concerned there's only one good way to fit these connectors to JT30's and that is to enlarge the hole further, fabricate a bushing that presses into that hole, and drill and tap the bushing to fit the 2501 connector.
That's how I do it, anyway. I've fixed a lot of hack jobs done other ways. And I've done hundreds.
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/Greg
Last Edited by Greg Heumann on Mar 26, 2013 8:17 PM
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