Identifying a Joint and Plastic Version in Australia

[Rohan99]

Hi,

Does anyone know what the name of this joint is? And if possible where i could buy a plastic version in Australia or online?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Danger]

Welcome to PF, Rohan.
I've never seen one like it, but it appears to just be an extremely simplified version of a ball-and-socket. Furthermore, frequent motion seems to be ruled out by the clamping screw, so tolerances aren't critical.
You could make one yourself just by gluing a ball to the end of a rod, then using a countersink drill bit to form the 2 halves of the socket in the bar stock. (I'm thinking that the background of your photo is a sheet of ruled writing paper, which is what I'm going by as a scale reference.)

 

[tygerdawg]

I've seen this many times over the years, but never seen a "name" for it. Danger is correct in his description.

One finds these things on dial indicator positioning arms. One finds those in machinist's tooling supply houses / catalogs.

Plastic versions? Can't recall if I've ever seen plastic versions. Maybe some type of lab supply or scientific supply source may have something in plastic.

 

[Rohan99]

Cheers guys for the ideas, I am going to ask a few of the techies around uni and hopefully they know where I could find a plastic version from. Pretty simple joint but I got no idea where you find them. Might have to get the tools out and have a crack

 

[DaveC426913]

Yeah, it's an armature ball joint, commonly used for puppets and for hobby clamps.

https://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&...urce=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=VHgHUMDxG4H46wHUi43LBA