Reddit reviews eBoot 180 Pieces Male Female Hex Brass Spacer Standoff Screw Nut Assortment Kit (M3)
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180 Pieces brass standoff kit: the brass standoff kit come with hex spacers, screw, nut, standoff, applies to many area, appropriate to meet you different needsDurable material and long use life: there standoffs are made of durable brass, there screws and nuts are made of stainless steel which strong, anticorrosive, compact and portableSize: M3 Brass female to female length is 6 mm, 10 mm, 15 mm, 20 mm; The screw thread is M3/ (3 mm), the thread pitch is 0.5 mmEasy to install: the standoff kit is very useful small tools, they are very easy to install, and bring a lot of convenience to your lifePackage includes: 180 pieces M3 standoff kit, the plastic box is durable in any way, all the parts are in their individual compartments
Head to the hardware store and see what they have that you can use. Maybe with a dremel you can cut some pieces to fit. Its not pretty but I wouldnt let 4mm hold me back.
Or...sell your old case once you get the new one to recoup some of that money. Just had another thought....maybe these standoffs might work?
Shoot, in your position I'd be looking seriously into making a custom single din plate out of metal moving the cb's knobs and switches, and lengthening the wires. Laser cut the holes, laser on the labeling, use a few runs of cat5/cat6 to extend the switches from the main box and you should be golden.
OK. I'm really starting to get thinking on this
To make it really slick I would use keystone rj45 jacks to terminate the wires from the circuit board, and to the knobs, display's, and switches at each end. this would mean also making a new face for the main box of the cb so you could mount these properly. Their intended use is in a keystone wallplate, for home or server use. (maybe you already know all this? idk) For mounting them on the faceplate in the dash I would laser cut them a second smaller metal panel that I would mount behind the main plate using metal standoffs, like this, thus keeping all the connections hidden, and not at risk of breaking. if you needed to remove the radio or the cb remote faceplate all you have to do is disconnect the ethernet cables.
If you ever wanted to put the CB back to factory it would be a bit of a project to replace all the parts in the original front cover and solder all the wires back, but it sounds like that's something you're capable of doing.
With this setup you might even be able to mount the radio in your trunk. it would be easy to do, just a few runs of cat5 to wherever you want it. It would depend on if the switches all worked ok over that long of wire runs though.