----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Jarratt" <robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com>
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2016 7:10 PM
...
   Here's
Mouser's 578 pages of standoff choices:
 
http://www.mouser.com/Electromechanical/Hardware/Standoffs-
 Spacers/_/N-aictf
 So maybe not original, but close enough functionally.
 --Chuck 
 I hadn't considered doing something like this. In the end I am most
 interested in functionality as long as I don't have to permanently alter
 anything. 
 
I just cut what I need from the barrel of an old dried-out ball point pen, with
self-tapping screws, long all-the-way-through screws, or expanding plastic standoffs glued
in the end(s), depending on the situation...
m