Jeez Louise, all I want is one hex bolt!

[Col. Harrumph]

I found the perfect thing on amazon... $361 for a pack of 80 Anyone want 79 hex bolts? Size 7/8 x 14, 1 3/4 inch long; just the thing for cobbling together a homemade gas check expander on your RockChucker. Only $356 and I'll eat the 49¢

 

[Bobaloo22]

Fastenal will sell you just one. Also McMaster-Carr

 

[Pivot Dr]

Menards, Home Depot, Ace Hardware, True Value Hardware, any local farm supply store i.e. Tractor Supply, any Implement store, John Deere, Case IH, Massey Ferguson, big truck shop, Kenworth, Freightliner. Lots of other probable sources.

 

[Elkins45]

I bought a big bag full of them from Grainger. It was cheap enough I don’t remember the price.

 

[1KPerDay]

Yeah, see if there's a Fastenal or Grainger near you. My local C-A-L Ranch has a great supply of misc. bolts, nuts, fittings, and pins. Saved me more than once.

 

[DustyRusty]

+1 on McMaster Carr, Fastenal and Tractor supply.
Tractor Supply surprises me on what they have.
Amazon is surprising especially when the have a warehouse near you. (Mine is 20 miles away.)
Amazon trucks come around here more than once a day.
I've ordered things in the am and received them in the pm.
Or in the pm and received the next am.
Also, local vendors sometimes don't stock enough variety.

 

[Meeks36]

You could buy them and sell them on ebay. Or check out a local hardware store.

 

[nettlle]

All the tractor stores around here have bolt bins

 

[maxxhavoc]

Order this instead -

McMaster-Carr

McMaster-Carr is the complete source for your plant with over 595,000 products. 98% of products ordered ship from stock and deliver same or next day.

www.mcmaster.com

And send me $200. That will save you money overall

 

[Show Me]

Fastenal will sell you just one. Also McMaster-Carr

The stores in town quit walk in sales so I quit them. Other places to get anchors,epoxy,nuts and screws of all types.

 

[Show Me]

I found the perfect thing on amazon... $361 for a pack of 80 Anyone want 79 hex bolts? Size 7/8 x 14, 1 3/4 inch long; just the thing for cobbling together a homemade gas check expander on your RockChucker. Only $356 and I'll eat the 49¢

"Oh come on man"

 

[Col. Harrumph]

Thanks guys. McMaster-Carr it is.

 

[lightman]

Like the others have said, lots of places that you can walk in and buy one.

 

[Dave DeLaurant]

1. Amazon
2. eBay
3. Local hardware: Cobbs, National, Ace, Lowes, Home Depot, etc. Find the section with a bunch of drawers that look vaguely like this:




BTW, you can find all sorts of useful stuff here if you browse here regularly, such as plastic plugs threaded knobs, roll pins, weird metric threats und so weiter und so fort.

 

[rust collector]

7/8" is a good size bolt, but any LGS worth its salt probably has boxes of junk or orphan die bodies or bullet seaters which can host whatever mandrel or spindle you wish to craft and insert. These can be readily secured by pinning or other mechanical means, including internal threading, creating a cheap adapter.

 

[Jim Watson]

I want a few 7/8" lock washers. The narrow 1" Dillon die lock rings don't stay put very well and space is tight for bigger rings with set screws or cross bolts.

 

[rust collector]

I want a few 7/8" lock washers. The narrow 1" Dillon die lock rings don't stay put very well and space is tight for bigger rings with set screws or cross bolts.

These are nearly 1/2" tall, but could be ground down. A pair properly torqued shouldn't go anywhere.
https://www.mcmaster.com/94846A218/

 

[Dave DeLaurant]

BTW, on the general subject of fastener questing, I did a fair bit of rummaging through drawers and trawling online to find a suitable combination parts for making this extended bolt handle (from aluminum tubing and stainless steel fasteners) for my custom K31 project a few years ago:

 

[Jim Watson]

These are nearly 1/2" tall, but could be ground down. A pair properly torqued shouldn't go anywhere.
https://www.mcmaster.com/94846A218/

I was thinking about a toothy lock washer like so.

McMaster-Carr

McMaster-Carr is the complete source for your plant with over 595,000 products. 98% of products ordered ship from stock and deliver same or next day.

www.mcmaster.com

 

[Show Me]

7/8" is a good size bolt, but any LGS worth its salt probably has boxes of junk or orphan die bodies or bullet seaters which can host whatever mandrel or spindle you wish to craft and insert. These can be readily secured by pinning or other mechanical means, including internal threading, creating a cheap adapter.

Heck , could have bought a new die if the project was so important

 

[BreechFace]

BTW, on the general subject of fastener questing, I did a fair bit of rummaging through drawers and trawling online to find a suitable combination parts for making this extended bolt handle (from aluminum tubing and stainless steel fasteners) for my custom K31 project a few years ago:

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Would like to know more about that K31. Is that hard chromed? Or just in bead blasted in the white?

 

[Dave DeLaurant]

Would like to know more about that K31. Is that hard chromed? Or just in bead blasted in the white?

I had some components Armoloy plated -- here's my original posting on the project:

My K31 Swiss do-over

Ever had a rifle project that took more than one try to get right? Here's one of mine -- maybe you could share yours. I've spent a little over three months recently working on a do-over Swiss K31 project, and am finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. Let me say at the outset that...

www.thehighroad.org

 

[Tilos]

I want a few 7/8" lock washers. The narrow 1" Dillon die lock rings don't stay put very well and space is tight for bigger rings with set screws or cross bolts.

Lock washers for cap screws have a smaller O.D. and are sometimes called High Collar Lock Washers.
Here:

McMaster-Carr

McMaster-Carr is the complete source for your plant with over 595,000 products. 98% of products ordered ship from stock and deliver same or next day.

www.mcmaster.com

And there are star washers:

McMaster-Carr

McMaster-Carr is the complete source for your plant with over 595,000 products. 98% of products ordered ship from stock and deliver same or next day.

www.mcmaster.com

And/or wave washers...

McMaster-Carr

McMaster-Carr is the complete source for your plant with over 595,000 products. 98% of products ordered ship from stock and deliver same or next day.

www.mcmaster.com

.

 

[Col. Harrumph]

Heck , could have bought a new die if the project was so important

Yup, the interim solution was to use a .357 expander die upside down.

 

[Show Me]

Gas check expander. You have gas checks that won't fit? I must have not read correctly.