{"id":2642,"date":"2017-02-14T22:45:50","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T06:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/?p=2642"},"modified":"2017-02-14T22:46:08","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T06:46:08","slug":"testing-self-clinching-standoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/?p=2642","title":{"rendered":"Testing Self Clinching Standoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently been looking at better ways to mount a PCB inside a metal enclosure. Primarily I&#8217;m interested in ways that don&#8217;t require screws protruding from the bottom.<\/p>\n<p>I found these self clinching standoffs on Fastenal&#8217;s web site, and figured I&#8217;d give them a try. Normally they&#8217;re installed using an automated press, but I gave it a shot with the cheap Harbor Freight press I&#8217;ve got.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fitting Self-Clinching Standoffs With a Shop Press\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zfyas-Yfa2U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Apologies for the vertical format video. Handling the camera, the metal, and the press at the same time was a bit unwieldy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently been looking at better ways to mount a PCB inside a metal enclosure. Primarily I&#8217;m interested in ways that don&#8217;t require screws protruding from the bottom. I found these self clinching standoffs on Fastenal&#8217;s web site, and figured &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/?p=2642\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2642"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2644,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642\/revisions\/2644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}