O.k. this isnt so much as tech but just something to store in the back of your brain. If you guys are anything like me you lose shit on a daily basis, while building my 32 sedan I bought an interior screw kit and of course I've lost about a third of the garnish mold wood screws. Well today I went to Menards and they had the exact match in a stainless steel screw, straight slot not phillips. So if you have lost your screws and have a Menards theres help for ya.
I buy all my hardware from hardware stores... Never have bought a "kit"... Get your hands on a fastenal catalog...
Every time I go to fastenall its a we can order that for you and you can pick it up next week. And you cant get all the specialty nuts, bolts and screws that come in a kit by going to a hardware store.
We have a store out in SoCal called Ababa bolt. If they don't have it they probably don't make it. And you can order online!!
Got to admit that after all these years of seeing Phillip head screws I love the tried and true slot head screws(reminds me of a female!!) Pete
McMaster-Carr... Yes, they have minimum quantities but they're so cheap that even ending up with a bunch of extras will usually be cheaper than buying per-piece elsewhere if you're buying much quantity. And those extras do tend to get used up... LOL
Well looks like I got screwed again! Sometimes I'll order a special kit but most often it's off to the Big Box for my screws and bolts. At our local "Tractor Supply" I can buy one or 1000 and they are always cheaper than the mail order or swap meet kits. Thanks.
This from a different thread but I think it applies here...lol..,same as the tool gremlins...screw gremlins !!!!
We have a great hardware store here in town with all kind of stuff including a great assortment of stainless. My problem is I get there and forget to write down half the stuff I went there to get.
This is a Fillister head screw. Like those found on many older carburetors and other accessory applications. Ray
Hereabouts, we are blessed with a MAJOR Fastenall store, (everything in stock!) and another independent company that manufactures in house! Merced Screw. Son in Law works there, gets me cool stuff on order. I have a few Model Ts, so good quality wood screws are 'perfunctory'... (look it up)
Ray...Sometimes these Fillister heads are necessary to have an SAE (fine) thread... the plot then thickens...
Mike, I wasn't addressing the thread pitch...only the head shape. But, now that you mention it, I can't recall seeing a fine thread fillister head screw. Hmmmm... Ray
I live 3.4 miles from Menards to the south. I live 3.4 miles from Fastenal to the north. Nebraska/Iowa fasteners is about 4-5 miles west of me and all of them have cool stainless stuff! It's all so confusing. Sometimes I just drive to Tractor Supply.
I learned early on in the building of the Ranch Wagon that buying all the screw,bolts,lock washer,washers etc cold be picked up at the local ACE Hardware in stainless for about a third of what the cadmium or zinc plated stuff cost from the catalogs listed. and buying bulk,100 count, the prices got even more reasonable. HRP
My biggest deal with these screws was finding the slot head, you can go to just about any hardware store and find the right screw it just has a phillips head,
You guys might like this, the nabor kid, who is the world's greatest kid, hangs around the shop sometimes, I ask him to bring me the screwdriver, it was laying on a chair, He went to where I have them on the rack, phillips one side slotted at other end, So he replies: PLUS or MINUS BOB? BIG or LITTLE? think about that for a while. then look at end of the screwdrivers.. blew me away..
DFW area we have Arrow Bolt. I bought some large bolts there for a buck each. Same one at Ace was $3.15 each
Yep, some don't care & Some won't be able to sleep. I went looking for 10-24 oval head machine screws in stainless with a slotted head, plenty of them with Philips head. If I head over to lowes (H D bolt department sucks) I get a small bag of bolts and it costs me about $ 20.00 If I head over to my bolt supply house and spend 20.00, well I get a box that I need both hands to carry. The price difference is stunning. I've tried fasten-al so many times and every time they don't have what I'm in need of. I told the guy maybe it was time to rename the place fasten-most. The store here is quite large ( old Harley dealership) and the floor space dedicated to threaded thingies is about the size of the restrooms. My bolt supply house is 6000 square feet of neatly organized shelves in rows 12 feet high with nothing but threaded thingies.
You can usually find those in fine thread if you go to an aircraft hardware supply place like Aircraft Spruce, or the FBO at your local small airport. We use them all the time, usually in avionics components. They are usually buried with all the "NAS" standard hardware, and most often have a safety-wire hole in the head.
I am pretty blessed to have a really well stocked Ace Hardware a few blocks from my house that the manager keeps pretty well stocked with 'specialty' hardware. Heck they even had, in stock, the polished-chrome-plated deep acorn nuts needed for my Studebaker's valve covers. And since I work on an airfield, I have access to all the specialty hardware catalogues and bins to reference.
I'm really disappointed in this thread, I thought you were going to tell me how I could find all the shit that I have acquired, and now I can't find!
Believe it or not, here around Motown when asking for slotted ovals they look at you like you asked for meth or something. Fine thread fillister? Lots of those on 30s Packard senior cars. I just bought thousands of fasteners from a place closing down. In that group is about 7,000 2-56 X .125 and .250 pan head Phillips. No clue what I'd ever use them on. No clue as to who I could market them to. Have thousands of phillips oval 1/4-20 X .500-1.750. The majority are 18-8 stainless. Within the next several weeks I'll be offering the membership here some nice deals on boxes of 100, many sizes, all machine screws, no wood/sheet metal.
this is one of the nice things of living near a major city , I have 4 bolt repackers within 25 miles of my house and they will sell indivdual pieces , plus with the major industry near by ( refinery and petro chem, and railroads ) my fastenal is stocked real good , hell last year they had to move the store to a bigger one because of there need for stocking space . and thanks for reminding me I have to get some stainless metric cage nuts for a O/T , they would have cost me $6 ea if I bought them online , but my one place has them for .98 each .
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