Your Complete Source for Electronic Hardware

RAF Electronic Hardware offers the widest selection of English and metric dimensioned components available from a single source.  You can choose the style, size, material and finish that's just right for your application.  A modern U.S. manufacturing and plating facility assures you of a large product inventory, short lead times, and same day processing and shipping.  ABE also can provide RAF cross reference charts for items made by other manufactures.

Please choose a link below for general product information and then click on for the product specification or go directly to the online catalog to view the Full Line, Metric Hardware, or Handles & Ferrules.



  • Female and male-female styles.
  • Round, hex, and square profiles.
  • Aluminum, brass, steel, stainless steel, nylon.
  • More than 40 metallic finishes.
  • Threads from 2-56 to 5/16-18.
  • Lengths from 3/16 to 10 inches.
  • Diameters from 1/8 to 5/8 inch.

  • The basic standard for PCB mounting, female standoffs are available in round, hex, and square styles with regular swaged ends.  Swages include plain and knurled shanks, and front, back, or front and back faced knurls.  Male-female models come in round and hex profiles.  A male-male standoff also is offered.

    Round Female Standoffs
    Hexagon Female Standoffs
    Square Female Standoffs
    Round Swage Standoffs
    Hex Swage Standoffs
    Round Male-Female Standoffs
    Hex Male-Female Standoffs
    Round Partial Knurl
    Full Knurl Standoffs
    Hex Binding Swage Standoffs
    Round Knurled Swage Standoffs
    Swage Tite Standoffs



  • Round and hexagon profiles.
  • Aluminum, brass, steel, stainless steel, nylon, phenolic.
  • More than 40 metallic finishes.
  • Lengths from 1/8 to 2 inches.
  • Diameters from 1/8 to 3/4 inch with clearance holes ranging from 0.064 to .505 inch.

  • Used for printed circuit board mounting and other applications requiring close control of dimensions, these spacers offer a wide variety of outside dimensions and lengths.  In addition to standard models, swage configurations are available to accommodate circuit boadrs with thicknesses from 1/32 to 1/4 inch.

    Round Spacers
    Hexagon Spacers
    Round Swage Spacers
    Hexagon Swage Spacers


  • Five styles of captive panel screws and seven swaged retainer types.
  • Brass, steel, stainless steel.
  • More than 30 metallic finishes.
  • Threads from 2-56 to 3/8-16.
  • Lengths from 21/32 to 2 inches.
  • Head diameters from 5/16 to 3/4 inches.

  • Invaluable for equipment panels where mounting hardware is subject to loss, these captive screws and retainers assure easy and secure assembly.  In addition to standard models, users choose variations such as slotted, unslotted, or hex heads, washers for oval head styles, plus retainer spring and washer sets.

    Captive Panel Screw Style 1
    Captive Panel Screw Style 3
    Captive Panel Screw Style 5
    Captive Panel Screw Style 2
    Captive Panel Screw Style 4
    Captive Panel Screw Style 6
    Panel Screw Retainer Style A
    Panel Screw Retainer Style C
    Panel Screw Retainer Style E
    Panel Screw Retainer Style B
    Panel Screw Retainer Style D
    Panel Screw Retainer Style F
    Panel Screw Retainer Style G


  • Slotted and socket heads available.
  • Brass, steel, stainless steel.
  • More than 30 metallic finishes.
  • Threads from 4-40 to 3/8-16.
  • Shoulder lengths from 0.1250 to 1.5000 inch; shoulder diameters from 0.1245 to 0.4995 inch.
  • Head diameters from 1/4 to 5/8 inch.

  • Useful as a precision spacer and bearing surface for a wide variety of applications, shoulder screws are manufactured with exacting tolerances (shoulder diam:  +.000/-.001, shoulder length:  +.002/-.000).  Undercuts on each side of the shoulder assure perfect seating for precise low friction assembly.

    Screw Driver Slot or Socket Head


  • Washer face, plain, and push styles.
  • Aluminum, brass, steel, stainless steel.
  • More than 40 metallic finishes.
  • Threads from 4-40 to 1/4-20.
  • Lengths from 1/2 to 2-1/2 inches.
  • Head diameters from 3/16 to 1/2 inches.

  • Thumbscrews add the finishing touch to front panels or other equipment and offer the ease of no-tool assembly and disassembly for many applications.  These components have easy-to-grip diamond knurl head surfaces plus a choice of materials and finishes that will complement any design.

    Washer Faces
    Plain


  • Round, rectangular, and oval profiles.
  • Fixed, offset, 2- & 3-position styles.
  • Aluminum, brass, steel, stainless steel.
  • More than 40 metallic finishes.
  • Internal and external threads.
  • Lengths from 3/4 to 7 inches.

  • Eleven attractive and functional handle lines available in an extensive selection of sizes, materials, and finishes provide the right handle form applications ranging from rack-mounted equipment to stylish carrying cases.  In addition, a choice of handle ferrules is offered to reinforce and complete the installation.

    Round Handles--Internal Thread (aluminum, brass, stainless steel, and steel)
    Special sizes available--Contact ABE (or Sales Office)
    Roundoffset Handle--Internal Thread (aluminum, brass, stainless steel, and steel)
    Special sizes available--Contact ABE (or Sales Office)
    Oval Handles--Internal Thread (aluminum, brass, stainless steel, and steel)
    Handle Ferrules (aluminum, brass, stainless steel, and steel)


  • Standard design hex jack screws.
  • Supplied with washers and nut.
  • Material:  Steel with zinc plate per ASST.-B-633 (yellow chromate) finish.
  • Threads: 4-40
  • Thread lengths from 3/16 to 3/4 inch.
  • Body diameter: 3/16 inch hex.
  • Body length: 3/16 inch.

  • Primarilly used to secure D-type cable connnectors in computer and other electronic equipment, standard 3/16 inch hex jack screws come as a complete set including two flat washers, one lock washer, and a nut. They meet all the immportant industry specifications and can be customized for your application.

    Hex Jack Screws--Steel Cadmium Color Chromate (packaged either bulk or polybag)


  • Fifty-six different PCB support components include standoffs, spacers, adhesive base supports, threaded and snap-on, blind-hole, flexible hinge, edge/corner and many others.
  • Materials include three different nylons, a flame retardant nylon, polycarbonate, and CPVC.

  • Inexpensive plastic circuit board supports are used extensively to mount small, non-critical PCBs in many types of consumer and commercial electronic equipment.  With easy no-tool insertion and removal, this wide range of available support components provides a complete selection for all applications.


  • Non-metallic flat washers.
  • Non-metallic shoulder washers.
  • Diameters from 1/8 to 1-1/2 inch.
  • Washer thickness from 0.015 to 0.125 inches.
  • Wide choice of holes sizes, shoulder lengths, and shoulder diameters.

  • RAF also offers a wide selection of non-metallic washers available in materials such as Nylon, Teflon, phenolic, fiber, and others.  These washers provider good surface protection, deform slightly under pressure to partially seal and secure assemblies, and provider excellent thermal and electrical insulation.

    Flat Washers
    Shoulder Washers


    When you have a critical project that requires a special piece of electronic hardware, RAF and ABE are ready to work with you to produce just what you need.  Whether you want to modify one of the existing stock components or have something completely different in mind, we offer the design, engineering, and production services that turn your ideas into reality.  Our world-class production facility and in-house plating operation combined with years of problem solving means that any part can be customized to your exact specifications.  Contact an Above Board Electronics' representative today and find out how easy it is to get that special hardware.


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