Star grounding bracket/hardware?

[Styles]

Can anyone point me to somewhere that carries brackets/nuts/lugs for star grounding?  Tried doing a search but nut sure of the proper terminology so couldn't find what im looking for. Looks like a washer with 7-8 terminals coming off of it. Never used this method for anything thg I've built so maybe it's not something you can buy pre-made.

Thanks!

[Jdansti]

Something like this? http://www.rraepe.com/servlet/the-24/3-Lug-Solder-Terminal/Detail

What I usually do is tin a piece of bare wire about 1" long and connect it to the circuit board ground. I leave it sticking straight up above the top of the board. Then I wrap and solder all of my grounds including the PS ground to this wire-one above the other.  After all of the ground leads are soldered to it, I snip off the excess from this homemade terminal. This seems to work well for me and I don't have to buy any additional parts. It also saves room inside the enclosure.

[davent]

In the past i've taken a piece if 14 gauge solid core wire, put a wire terminal on one end, bend that into a very distrorted 'z'. Bolted onto the chassis using a star washer (between the chassis and wire terminal) and nylocks i ahve a length of 14 gauge i solder my various ground nodes to. Picture always explains better then my words. You could bend the 14 gauge into any shape you need. Top middle of picture.

On page 143 of Morgan Jones' book, Building Valve Amplifiers is a picture of the part you describe but i've never seen them offered anywhere.

http://books.google.ca/books?id=uY55VJZYWyAC&q=star+connections#v=snippet&q=star%20connections&f=false


dave