Press-on or "Swage" nuts also work very nicely.  Press the nut onto the
TO-220 package and forget about needing needle-nose pliers. A vice works
very nicely to press the nuts onto the parts most of the times.  Digikey
and Mouser both have stock of Swage standoffs which could be thought of
as a really tall nut.

PicDude wrote:

>On Tuesday 27 July 2004 11:11 am, Charles Craft scribbled:
>
>
>>How did you get the bolts/screws through the components once the cover was
>>on?????
>>
>>
>>
>
>Very painfully :-)  I used a pair of needle-nose pliers to hold the small nut
>(6-32 IIRC) against the TO-220 device, and inserted the screw from the
>outside.  There was one in the middle that I could not get to, but it did not
>matter, since the only devices that got hot were the linear regulators and
>they were on the ends.
>
>I also intended (and still intend) to perforate the cover, so if I wanted, I
>could make appropriate holes to easily bolt on that middle TO-220 device.
>
>Cheers,
>-Neil.
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