NTE5 Faceplate Screws

Hey guys,

I've lost the screws when taking off the front faceplate to do a test as requested by my ISP.

Does anyone know what screws they are, I can't find a reference to them anywhere!

With or without an interstitial plate between it and the body?

If it's without, buy a Mk3 DSL filter plate and fit that. It comes with the necessary longer screws. A better solution than buying a replacement ordinary faceplate to get the screws.

I've got the plate between the filter and the body, and that's the bit I need the screws for. It seems silly to buy that whole bit again just for them screws, it's just them two screws either side of the front bit, not the actual back box.

Many thanks!

If the body has a metal thread, then machine/electrical screws, but if I recall its the same as most light switch screws, just a case of getting the right length. M3.5 I think is the size and ScrewFix etc stock them

But now we also know which length you need .

This is the exact one we have:

https://www.run-it-direct.co.uk/images/2012openreach...

Need the screws for the holes shown on there. M3.5 you say, I'm not sure if it'd be 25mm or 30mm?

That hasn't got the interstitial plate. In fact it has me baffled, as the faceplate is the part below the line and should not be moulded to the top like that seems to be. There should be a load of stuff in the backbox.

See this page showing it assembled and disassembled. In particular the top and bottom pictures.

Does your fully assembled setup look like the top picture? Or does it look like the bottom one would if assembled to the backbox without the bit the yellow arrow points to inserted?

Full assembled it looks like the top, this one: http://www.coolwebhome.co.uk/faceplate/images/facepl...

And looks like the left one in this picture: http://www.coolwebhome.co.uk/faceplate/images/test-s...

I've just tried a screw from another box, an ethernet faceplate, which I think is M3.5, and it doesn't fit. I think they could be M2.5s...

There are two different types depending on whether it is an older NTE5 with metal inserts (which which case I think they are m3.5) or later masters which have a plastic hole and require a type of self-tapper. M3.5 screws of the right length will be easy enough to find on ebay or even Screwfix (as I think it's the same thread as is used for fixing electric sockets and light switches). Of course you'll need the right length, but that should be easy to estimate by using something like a ballpoint pen refill and putting it through the socket/interstitial plate, measuring that length and adding a bit for the thread.

If it's the self-tapping kind, then I don't know where they'd come from.

Unfortunately it's the self-tapping kind, they're plastic.

Look at the socket carefully, the one I have on desk has plastic threads that fit machine screens. If you had used self tapping screws before that thread would have been destroyed though.

Size wise just looked and yes M2.5 (3.5 seems to be light sockets) and total screw length is 35mm

OK - having actually removed a screw, then it would be smaller than that for lights & sockets. Mine are self tappers with an outside thread diameter of 3mm and length 35mm.

A quick look on eBay doesn't reveal a countersunk of quite that size, but a bit more persistence might find some.

The Solwise iPlate is still on their website at £2.94 inc VAT. Unfortunately it doesn't say that it includes screws, but looking at feedback on other sites selling the same product indicates it does, but I can't guarantee it. Note cost is £6.53 including carriage.

http://www.solwise.co.uk/adsl_splitters-faceplates.htm

Is the iPlate the same depth as the interstitial DSL filter?

Which also raises the question of what interstitial plate has he got,

Just ask an Openreach engineer when you spot a van parked up, I am sure they would oblige with a couple of the correct screws.
The new faceplates are just push on pull off but they have only just changed so I am sure an engineer will have a couple of the old screws knocking about.