Nylon plunger latches, fasteners to fix your vintage Icom, Yaesu and Kenwood radios
I finally found my nylon latches needed for many vintage ham radios from the seventies and eighties. Problem is that after 40 years, the original nylon latches become brittle and break off. And then you end up with a radio having loose case panels and/or hatches.
I found the correct ones from a company called Southco, they still make them. Here you can find their web site: https://shop.southco.com/en_us/ny-5g-...
Search for NY-5G-51-20 for the latch, and NY-5P-52-3-50 for the correct plunger.
As I show here, these are the correct ones for the Icom IC-202 family of radios. But there are many more vintage radios that use these: Yaesu and Kenwood radios as well.
If you want to make 100% sure they will fit your radio, download the datasheet from the Southco web site and measure the hole size in your radio. then find the latch that fits that (hole size and panel thickness are the determining parameters). Southco sells many different sizes so you should have no problems finding the right one. But like I said, this particular one fits all the vintage radios in my collection that use these latches (IC-202, IC 502, IC-720, FT-301, TS-700, PS-5)
No, I am not affiliated with this company in any way 🙂
