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  • CFM
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So i have another holster to modify but on examining it i noticed this plastic button protector thing. Anyone seen them elsewhere they are a protector for the metal to metal contact. on snaps. i don't care for plastic much buts its a pretty cool invention. or is it just a plastic back piece for a rivet? 

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  • CFM
Posted

From the pictures it looks like a button that pops through the hole in the center of the snap. A separate unit. Pretty neat idea.

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  • Contributing Member
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There are plastic 'snaps'. They are available in 3 sizes afaik. They are called 'KAM Snaps' T5 is the most common size. It needs a special pliers tool to set them, by squeezing and squashing the central pointy bit, which actually looks the same in your sample photograph.  I use them on 'key ring coin purses' and other lightweight items.  I must see if one of their heads will do the same job

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  • CFM
Posted
6 minutes ago, fredk said:

There are plastic 'snaps'. They are available in 3 sizes afaik. They are called 'KAM Snaps' T5 is the most common size. It needs a special pliers tool to set them, by squeezing and squashing the central pointy bit, which actually looks the same in your sample photograph.  I use them on 'key ring coin purses' and other lightweight items.  I must see if one of their heads will do the same job

51Nc4M2cbmL.jpg

 

yes they appear to be the same but using a metal snap on the outer part. please let us know. 

Worked in a prison for 30 years if I aint shiny every time I comment its no big deal, I just don't wave pompoms.

“I won’t be wronged, I won’t be insulted, and I won’t be laid a hand on. I don’t do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.” THE DUKE!

  • Contributing Member
Posted

Right, we don't buy snap/poppers by 'Line #' but by the mm diameter of the head

Here is a photo of KAM Snaps heads on the bases of two sizes of regular snaps

On the left, a KAM head is wider than the base of a 12mm classed snap, but, on the right, the base of a 15mm class is about 1.5 mm wider that the KAM head

KAM Snaps, head into standard snaps, 01LWs.jpg

Actual measurements [approx, cos my gauge ain't 100% accurate ]

KAM head = 12.4mm to 12.6mm [slight variation]

12mm snap base = 10.9mm

15mm snap base = 14mm

If you could be bothered you could file the larger snap base down to fit under the KAN head. It wouldn't take much filing to take off about 0.7mm all round it

~~ I now remember that I used these to cover the bases of ready rivets before I discovered double-headed rivets

 

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  • CFM
Posted
2 hours ago, fredk said:

Right, we don't buy snap/poppers by 'Line #' but by the mm diameter of the head

Here is a photo of KAM Snaps heads on the bases of two sizes of regular snaps

On the left, a KAM head is wider than the base of a 12mm classed snap, but, on the right, the base of a 15mm class is about 1.5 mm wider that the KAM head

KAM Snaps, head into standard snaps, 01LWs.jpg

Actual measurements [approx, cos my gauge ain't 100% accurate ]

KAM head = 12.4mm to 12.6mm [slight variation]

12mm snap base = 10.9mm

15mm snap base = 14mm

If you could be bothered you could file the larger snap base down to fit under the KAN head. It wouldn't take much filing to take off about 0.7mm all round it

~~ I now remember that I used these to cover the bases of ready rivets before I discovered double-headed rivets

 

thank you for that info.

Worked in a prison for 30 years if I aint shiny every time I comment its no big deal, I just don't wave pompoms.

“I won’t be wronged, I won’t be insulted, and I won’t be laid a hand on. I don’t do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.” THE DUKE!

  • Contributing Member
Posted (edited)

I've finally tracked down two of the other sizes of KAM Snaps

T3 = 11 mm diameter

T8 = 14.1 mm diameter

I think I'll order some T8. I want some bigger KAMs and I'll see if that size will cover the 15mm snap base

edit; I just found another size

T15 = 16 mm diameter

I'm ordering those uns

Edited by fredk

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  • Members
Posted (edited)

I have only found two places that sell them in large quantities, I use them all the time in the unlined and thumb break holsters I make for line 24 snaps

Blue gun Store has them in clear http://www.bluegunstore.com/snapprotectors.aspx

EDC Leather has them in black https://edcleather.com/product/nylon-thumb-break-snap-backs/

Edited by CampCurryLeather
  • CFM
Posted
1 hour ago, CampCurryLeather said:

I have only found two places that sell them in large quantities, I use them all the time in the unlined and thumb break holsters I make for line 24 snaps

Blue gun Store has them in clear http://www.bluegunstore.com/snapprotectors.aspx

EDC Leather has them in black https://edcleather.com/product/nylon-thumb-break-snap-backs/

thank you for the info. How long have you used them? Do they hold up?

Worked in a prison for 30 years if I aint shiny every time I comment its no big deal, I just don't wave pompoms.

“I won’t be wronged, I won’t be insulted, and I won’t be laid a hand on. I don’t do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.” THE DUKE!

  • Contributing Member
Posted

I ordered 100 of the 16mm KAM snaps in black. If I use just the heads to cover the bases of 15mm snaps, then I'll have 200 covers. For £4.99 delivered

Delivery due soon but we have a couple of days holidays, tomorrow and Friday, no post so they might arrive Saturday

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