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Title: Floor screws and nuts source?
Post by: 8683jb on June 10, 2017, 05:31:11 PM

I've been trying to find the #14 slotted hex-head blunt-pointed sheet metal screws and folded tinnerman nuts for the floor plates with not much luck. Does anyone have a source for these?

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Title: Re: Floor screws and nuts source?
Post by: emptyhead on June 11, 2017, 04:46:31 AM

Got the floor screws from McMaster but had to grind off the flange part. I'm looking for the nuts too.

Title: Re: Floor screws and nuts source?
Post by: Outsider on June 11, 2017, 06:59:16 AM

I have not been able to find anything but the short nuts now for quite a while. I make my own longer ones now from pallet banding.

I only found screws without the flange once! And I bought them all!  ;D

 I sold off a few hundred to halftrack guys until I started to get low for building rear floor units.

Steve

Title: Re: Floor screws and nuts source?
Post by: emptyhead on June 11, 2017, 10:57:12 AM

You have a pic steve. I think I'll give it a shot.

Title: Re: Floor screws and nuts source?
Post by: 8683jb on June 11, 2017, 10:44:54 PM

I'd be OK if the nuts are shorter than the originals as long as they're deep enough to allow some movement in the hole so the screw can center itself. So far, all the ones I've found are so short the hole in the nut barely reaches the hole in the frame. The screws having a flange wouldn't give me heartburn either, but as yet I haven't found any with a hex head that aren't self-tapping. I'll check McMaster-Carr again in the morning.

Title: Re: Floor screws and nuts source?
Post by: steve-0 on June 12, 2017, 04:54:17 PM

some here
http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/232369914397?

Title: Re: Floor screws and nuts source?
Post by: Outsider on June 13, 2017, 04:29:15 AM

Here are some pictures of the screws I found:
(http://i1059.photobucket.com/albums/t427/sverburg/DSCN1323_zpsnymbsidq.jpg)

(http://i1059.photobucket.com/albums/t427/sverburg/DSCN1322_zpsnb6hvhqj.jpg)

Steve

Title: Re: Floor screws and nuts source?
Post by: 8683jb on June 13, 2017, 08:21:39 AM

Where'd you find those Steve?

Title: Re: Floor screws and nuts source?
Post by: Outsider on June 13, 2017, 02:32:44 PM

I found them in a Google search from a manufacturing company that had bought to many for a project. As they were what I was looking for I bought all they had. That was probably about 8 years ago and I have not been able to find any more since.

Steve

Title: Re: Floor screws and nuts source?
Post by: 8683jb on June 13, 2017, 03:48:32 PM

Nice find Steve! Good thing you scooped up all they had. I went ahead and ordered some of those that Steve-O referenced above.

Title: Re: Floor screws and nuts source?
Post by: TimG102 on December 30, 2017, 09:01:41 AM

How many screws does it take to install the floor?

Title: Re: Floor screws and nuts source?
Post by: 8683jb on December 30, 2017, 10:28:32 AM

I think there are near fifty for all of the floor panels, including under the seats and the center panels.

Title: Re: Floor screws and nuts source?
Post by: yd328 on December 30, 2017, 01:11:09 PM

There is something similar on ebay now. https://www.ebay.com/itm/173062620069

Gary

Title: Re: Floor screws and nuts source?
Post by: Outsider on December 30, 2017, 02:10:59 PM

Ouch! at a buck a screw that is pretty pricey.

Steve