Searched for a couple days, eventually got two different sets of these guys for feet for my Estate sale fan. 1/4-20 x1" thread, foot is about 7/16" tall, maybe 5/8" wide but I'm only able to find them with hard plastic. I need rubber so my fan doesn't wiggle around on my desk.
Anyone have something?
Very flexible on size of the foot, but want to avoid anything too tall. Only thing McMaster has is 3/4" tall or larger
maybe this will help with search terms.
Toggle clamp tips, search De-Sta-co.
Or got to McMacter Carr. Click on the red words above.
I bet the fan would have come with the rubber feet that have a hole in them and a screw passes through into the fan base.
I searched for "rubber screw hole foot" and got a bunch of matches that looked good.
Some elevator bolts and any of the sticky pads shown here.
I feel like I should bookmark this thread. Those feet look like the kind of thing I ever need–until I do.
In reply to dculberson :
I am doing something non-standard
The fan originally came with press-in rubber feet that I immediately abandoned the idea of finding.
The through-holes were for mounting them to the wall via screws or bolts. (Different fan, same idea)
The stick-on pads are a good idea. My gf suggested I coat the existing feet, so I'm probably gonna buy a can of plasti-dip on the way home.
In reply to Mr_Asa :
That looks like a perfect case for 3d printed feet with stick on rubber.
In reply to Stampie :
I thought about it, but realized if I was gonna 3D print anything it would likely be a mold so I could cast rubber around a bolt and do it that way.
In reply to Mr_Asa :
I'd just make a 1 for 1 replacement out of TPU. The design as-is was good enough for 60 years on the bottom of a lake, hard to beat that.
In reply to Jehannum :
I would have to buy TPU and dial that in, then do measurements and such
Work provided an excellent BBQ lunch for the end of the year, and it may be that talking... but :thhhhbbbbbbbt: to all of that.
Maybe these? Rubber Push Plugs
Search for toggle clamp feet.
You can also just search for 1/4-20 rubber feet.\
A toggle clamp:
And their feet:
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