Tym,
Where were you when I posted my adventures in screw land? Anyway, there are two
quick answers, and one caution.
First the caution. Don't buy it in a blister pack from a hardware store or
depot. They sell you 2 or 3 for $0.69, and then they are all slotted round head
screws.
One fine source is a Aircraft surplus store. Got a great one in Burbank. Major
problem, there are two aisles of boxes of stainless screw products. Most of the
boxes have a sample wired on. You take a big poly bag, grab as many of anything
you want, and they just weigh them at the end. Very Cheap. They even have
Titanium. Very expensive. Bought some Quick release ball-detent pins for the
front of the seats, instead of bolts, and I can remove the seats in seconds.
Puttting them back in could use a freind to help.
Best source was a boating store. The one near us had bins of them, and you just
took what you wanted and they counted them up at the counter. Had sizes 6
through 10 by 32 tpi in slotted pan, phillips pan, phillips tapered, and slotted
tapered in machine screws and sheet metal screws, as well as washers, lock
washers, nuts, even tonneau dot and posts on threaded shafts (only two of each
are easily installed). Costs ranged from 5 cents to a dime for most parts.
Some of teh funny stuff they had behind the counter. They most I paid was for
the radiator bolts, at $1.
The bad news is that, unless you're a glutten for punishment, polishing the
heads of the screws to look like chrome costs about 3 times what the part did,
in quantity. You only need this in about 250 places, though, if you don't care
about the washer, nuts, and lock nuts. Do have the finish cups done along with
the sheet metal screw, where these are used.
Many of the exact lengths you'd want are probagly not available, but slightly
longer ones are. A wire connector tool has threaded cutters for bolts that does
this job just fine. You can use a stack of washers as a guage. The small stuff
is easy. The #10's are HARD. Got my strong son-in-law to cut these, after the
tool ate a piece of my hand.
Steve
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