HOLY KOW! 200 bucks fer a screw?

[paladin]

I queried several companies advertising bronze fasteners for a #10-32 or 10-24 machine screw flathead, phillips, 4 inches long, with a flat washer, a lock washer and a proper machine screw nut. I got back 4 replies, three stated that they didn't make anything over three inches long, the fourth e-mailed me this morning that they could ship small quantities next day at $198.57 EACH!....at a dozen and a half that's a lotta corn flakes. Now I gotta wait fer one of the kids to come over and get the dies outta the warehouse and some monel rod.....it's cheeeeper to make them.

[JimConlin]

Chuck, did you try StaFast in New Bedford?
http://www.standardfastenings.com/

[donald branscom]

I queried several companies advertising bronze fasteners for a #10-32 or 10-24 machine screw flathead, phillips, 4 inches long, with a flat washer, a lock washer and a proper machine screw nut. I got back 4 replies, three stated that they didn't make anything over three inches long, the fourth e-mailed me this morning that they could ship small quantities next day at $198.57 EACH!....at a dozen and a half that's a lotta corn flakes. Now I gotta wait fer one of the kids to come over and get the dies outta the warehouse and some monel rod.....it's cheeeeper to make them.

There is a bronze shortage in the USA right now. Check some of the marine hardware sites. The problem is getting tin.

[George Roberts]

Custom work is expensive.

[Figment]

I've been meaning to ask...

Does anyone remember the name of that operation that had the screw cutter going at the WB show in Mystic?
I have a few oddballs I need to replace, but I seem to have misplaced their handout from the show.

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

200 bucks for a screw - you'd pay more than that in Paris, maybe a bit less in Bangkok or Manila...:D

...OK, I'll be serious, before I get Scotted...

Chuck, these are my local people - I'd be amazed if they don't have it at a far more sensible price, including shipping:

http://www.angliastainless.co.uk

[paladin]

I know fellers....I did it the cheap way.....but the e-mail was a bit of a shock to my very sensitive nature......

[ahp]

If there is a shortage of tin, maybe the tin mines of Cornwall will reopen.

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

That is not necessarily a silly idea - the last tin mine closed just a few years ago when the tin price collapsed, and being driven through granite the tin mines don't collapse, they just flood, so they are not so hard to re-open.

[SMARTINSEN]

[quote=Figment;1631662]I've been meaning to ask...

Does anyone remember the name of that operation that had the screw cutter going at the WB show in Mystic?



Goulet Specialties.
20 Oakdale Ave. Winsted CT. 06098
Phone:860-379-5419
Fax: 860-738-7346
http://www.oemfasteners.net/
Their prices are very reasonable, and 100% made in USA
They are good to deal with and may be able to help out both Figment and Paladin

[Ken Hutchins]

Use threaded rod, nuts on each end?

[Bayboat]

Hi Chuck: Just add this to stuff you know already, but maybe someone else doesn't: If there's any danger of water infiltration up the threads of threaded rod, use solid rod, boring a smidgen less than its diameter for a slight drive fit, and thread each end just enough to put on the nuts/washers. Counterbore for the washers if necessary.

[mcdenny]

boltdepot.com only goes up to 3" as well but I thought I'd offer their URL as a place with good prices and fast shipping. I've used them several times and been happy.

[pcford]

A #10x4" is not likely to be found easily. Awfully skinny for the length. One would guess this is not a structural member fastener.

It seems to me that the quickest solution would be to weld up some thing: A #10x2 to a rod threaded on end.