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[rob love]

Lynn
I was more referring to David's post.



These days, any visit to Canadian tire or Home depot for machine screws or self tapping screws (aside from drywall screws) inevitably leads to only Robertson being available if using SAE threads. I have had to use metric in the past in order to get slot drive.

[Mike Cecil]

Rob, have you tried McMaster-Carr? UNC, UNF or metric

https://www.mcmaster.com/machine-scr...d-head-screws/

Mike

[rob love]

Believe it or not, McMaster Carr will not export to Canada (this may have changed but I have not heard otherwise).
When I find boxes or jars of old steel, non plated, slot drive screws at the surplus places, I buy them. My inventory is decent enough that I rarely have to order them these days. And when I do need old time fasteners, Blacksmiths bolt and rivet supply in the US is my go-to place. They do not sell torx, robertson, phillips, their hardware is non-plated and usually chemically blackened. https://www.blacksmithbolt.com/

[Mike Cecil]

Thanks Rob, another good place of supply.

If you ever need something from the USA that the supplier will not send to Canada (like McMaster Carr), talk to me: I'm happy to act as 'post office' and send whatever it is on to you. Might mean double postage, but at least you'll get what you want/need.

Mike

[maple_leaf_eh]

Originally Posted by rob love

Believe it or not, McMaster Carr will not export to Canada (this may have changed but I have not heard otherwise).
.... https://www.blacksmithbolt.com/

The president of McMaster Carr did hard time in crowbar hotel after his company sold wrenches or fittings of screws to some place on the US State Dept list of really really bad places.

[Mike Cecil]

Wow! Didn't thread his way through that little problem and got screwed.

What a nut ... wonder he didn't bolt. ( sorry ...)

[Tony Smith]

Originally Posted by rob love

Believe it or not, McMaster Carr will not export to Canada (this may have changed but I have not heard otherwise).

Originally Posted by Mike Cecil

If you ever need something from the USA that the supplier will not send to Canada (like McMaster Carr), talk to me.

We've had lots of posts on MLU about McMaster Carr over the years. Drool-Worthy Catalog, but will not ship to ANY overseas destination, not just Canada. Even using a foreign credit card to place your order (with a US delivery address) will get your order cancelled. Their fingers must have been very badly burnt by past experience, and they are not keen to repeat the lesson.

[Mike Cecil]

Tony, I have a credit card, and they do accept orders from me. It was a genuine offer to MLU members. I doubt very much any MLU member would fail to reimburse me if they availed themselves of the offer.

Mike

[Lynn Eades]

On behalf of the many (I have not asked) and myself, Thank you Mike! I will keep you in mind, but would not take you up on your offer lightly.
There are many areas these days, that are not available in a small country like N.Z. For instance.
Things like American thread form fasteners are fast disappearing from stock lines in this country. Of late. I have been looking for screws for QMC WWII tail lights and have bought a pair (2 screws)for AU $6.60 which is bloody steep. Hopefully they turn up with the right heads and hopefully stainless?
Another thing I cant seem to get here is flaps (rust bands) for a 600 or 6.50 x 16 (combat rim) Seems silly to me.
I buy BSF fasteners from the U.K. because although the odd supplier here, has some 1/4" and 3/8" bsf, nuts they cant / dont supply 5/16 bsf. ( I need them for my riveted carriers)
The world is fast changing.
On another note, I have found a company that will crimp ends onto a jeep hand brake cable. They are a marine company that makes rigging for yachts.

[Mike K]

Originally Posted by Lynn Eades

On behalf of the many (I have not asked) and myself, Thank you Mike! I will keep you in mind, but would not take you up on your offer lightly.
There are many areas these days, that are not available in a small country like N.Z. For instance.
Things like American thread form fasteners are fast disappearing from stock lines in this country. Of late. I have been looking for screws for QMC WWII tail lights and have bought a pair (2 screws)for AU $6.60 which is bloody steep. Hopefully they turn up with the right heads and hopefully stainless?
Another thing I cant seem to get here is flaps (rust bands) for a 600 or 6.50 x 16 (combat rim) Seems silly to me.
I buy BSF fasteners from the U.K. because although the odd supplier here, has some 1/4" and 3/8" bsf, nuts they cant / dont supply 5/16 bsf. ( I need them for my riveted carriers)
The world is fast changing.
On another note, I have found a company that will crimp ends onto a jeep hand brake cable. They are a marine company that makes rigging for yachts.

Yeah everything is changing fast. But the local hardware store in the village here will still sell you nails by weight, the store employee uses old fashioned scales and the nails are put into a brown paper bag . He also sells Whitworth thread fasteners but for how long ?

It's getting to the stage of having to make your own fasteners , I've done this a few times, lucky for me that I have a few different taps and dies, including some B.A. taps that I found at a hamfest , these particular B.A. taps were made by the Pratt & Whitney engine Company U.S.A. Go figure that one !