> 1) I need an inline Female connector.  I have a power supply I am 
> building which basically consists of a wall transformer with each of 
> it's two wires attached to two conductors in a RJ45 surface mount 
> jack.   I really would prefer to do something other than the RJ45 
> surface mount jack, but can't find any inline female sources which 
> actually would work (and no, a keystone jack heatshrinked will not work 
> - it needs to look and be a bit more sturdy).  I'm thinking like the 
> type of connector which goes on the end of a telephone extension cable 
> (on the female side).
never seen plain inline sockets but back to back couplers are easy enough to get. Only problem is that you may have trouble fitting a RJ45 plug to the wall wart cable.

Failing that mount a through hole (sturdier than SMT) jack on a small pcb, solder the cable to the PCB, cable tie or epoxy the cable down and heatshrink the lot.

> 
> 2) I need a enlarged RJ45 male "test plug" that I can put some small 
> electronics into.  This is mainly for a specialiezed cable tester.   I'm 
> thinking of something like a logic probe (or smaller) with a RJ45 on the 
> end of.
you could possiblly take something like http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/tools/7470/ and gut it.


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