There's a fairly common style of small internal circlip which has three
inward-facing lobes, so that it works as a washer as well as a circlip,
but I don't know what these are called.

I've got a spring-loaded centre punch, nothing expensive, whose circlip
has fractured, and if I knew where to buy a replacment it might just
possibly be worth while.

Anyone know the correct description, and/or where to buy just a few?

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Windmill wrote:

There's a fairly common style of small internal circlip which has three
inward-facing lobes, so that it works as a washer as well as a circlip,
but I don't know what these are called.

E Clip.

Yes same issue on a Denon Cassette deck rewind spindle here. Really
annoying isn't it?
Brian

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"Windmill" wrote in message
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There's a fairly common style of small internal circlip which has three
inward-facing lobes, so that it works as a washer as well as a circlip,
but I don't know what these are called.

I've got a spring-loaded centre punch, nothing expensive, whose circlip
has fractured, and if I knew where to buy a replacment it might just
possibly be worth while.

Anyone know the correct description, and/or where to buy just a few?

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J.R.R. Tolkien:- @ S c o t s h o m e . c o m
All that is gold does not glister / Not all who wander are lost

Not sure about that, the ends are very close together on these ones.
Brian

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Windmill wrote:

There's a fairly common style of small internal circlip which has three
inward-facing lobes, so that it works as a washer as well as a circlip,
but I don't know what these are called.

E Clip.

On 18/08/2013 11:57, Andy Burns wrote:
Windmill wrote:

There's a fairly common style of small internal circlip which has three
inward-facing lobes, so that it works as a washer as well as a circlip,
but I don't know what these are called.

E Clip.


Just enter "e circlip" in the search box of eBay and you will be spoilt
for choice.

On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 11:57:23 +0100, Andy Burns wrote:

Windmill wrote:

There's a fairly common style of small internal circlip which has three
inward-facing lobes, so that it works as a washer as well as a circlip,
but I don't know what these are called.

E Clip.

Of course, they are external rather than internal.

I wonder if the OP actually meant internal (circlip inside a housing) of
external (circlip round a rod or similar).



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On 18/08/2013 06:02, Windmill wrote:
There's a fairly common style of small internal circlip which has three
inward-facing lobes, so that it works as a washer as well as a circlip,
but I don't know what these are called.

I've got a spring-loaded centre punch, nothing expensive, whose circlip
has fractured, and if I knew where to buy a replacment it might just
possibly be worth while.

Anyone know the correct description, and/or where to buy just a few?


If it looks like these;
http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/s...egoryId_255228

its a E clip.

I've got an assortment if you only need 1.
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newshound writes:

On 18/08/2013 11:57, Andy Burns wrote:
Windmill wrote:

There's a fairly common style of small internal circlip which has three
inward-facing lobes, so that it works as a washer as well as a circlip,
but I don't know what these are called.

E Clip.


Just enter "e circlip" in the search box of eBay and you will be spoilt
for choice.

Thanks all. Knowing the proper name is vital!

BTW I think I should have said 'external', not 'internal'.

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Bob Eager writes:

On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 11:57:23 +0100, Andy Burns wrote:

Windmill wrote:

There's a fairly common style of small internal circlip which has three
inward-facing lobes, so that it works as a washer as well as a circlip,
but I don't know what these are called.

E Clip.

Of course, they are external rather than internal.

I wonder if the OP actually meant internal (circlip inside a housing) of
external (circlip round a rod or similar).

No, just hadn't engaged brain before operating keyboard.

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The Medway Handyman writes:

On 18/08/2013 06:02, Windmill wrote:
There's a fairly common style of small internal circlip which has three
inward-facing lobes, so that it works as a washer as well as a circlip,
but I don't know what these are called.

I've got a spring-loaded centre punch, nothing expensive, whose circlip
has fractured, and if I knew where to buy a replacment it might just
possibly be worth while.

Anyone know the correct description, and/or where to buy just a few?


If it looks like these;
http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/s...egoryId_255228

its a E clip.

I've got an assortment if you only need 1.

Very good of you to offer. If I can't buy an assortment for future use,
I'll try to measure with calipers and then get back to you.

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All that is gold does not glister / Not all who wander are lost

On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 14:22:04 +0100, "Brian Gaff"
wrote:

Yes same issue on a Denon Cassette deck rewind spindle here. Really
annoying isn't it?

Aren't they a plastic material, maybe even just a very flexible thin washer with
a round hole in the middle?


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