[Milsurplus] Slide snap fasteners

[John Hutchins]

Ken -
McMaster Carr -
http://www.mcmaster.com
I need some studs for a bc-348 mount I want to make if I could find the 
studs first. I need about 8 of these to build 4 mounts.
-Hutch




On 4/23/2010 12:07 PM, Ken Kinderman wrote:
> We all have been up against the problem of finding those pesky little
> mounting plates for control boxes etc. (MT-80, MT-95/ARC-5, etc.), with
> studs on them to mate with the slide snaps on the boxes. Probably all got
> left in the aircraft as they went to the scrap heap. If you could find a way
> to replicate, or substitute for, the kind of fancy small-radius metal
> bending found on the originals, it would be possible to fabricate
> good-enough plates. Of course, a 3/16 bolt through a plate works too.
>
> Question: Does anyone have a source for the studs and/or the slide
> fasteners?
>
> I found a source, but had a most unpleasant experience trying to deal with
> them. Briefly: I contacted their sales guy and offered to buy a reasonable
> quantity on behalf of the Yankee Air Museum DC-3 restoration I am helping
> with. I even offered to pay a premium for a small-quantity purchase. Well,
> after 6 months of trying, I got no response on the phone, just one
> half-hearted e-mail from him promising to send me their line-card, then he
> stopped responding. They have a wire overstock list on their website (they
> fabricate harnesses), so I sent them some wire samples of stuff we are
> seeking. Never got the line card, never got the wire samples back, never got
> answers to letters, e-mails, or phone calls. I wrote a letter to the
> president saying hey please, this is a volunteer project, we just need your
> help and we are willing to pay, and we'll be happy to say good things about
> your company somewhere in the acknowledgments. Not a peep out of them. Very
> short-sighted of them to be so high and mighty. The company is called Astro
> Industries, near Dayton.
>
> Solutions, ideas, anyone?
>
> Ken,
> W2EWL
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