TROOP SEATS

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For exhaust applications you can find NAS and MS passivated finished stainless hardware that is extra corrosion resistant yet has strength equal to or greater than grade 8. Usually easier to find in racing catalogs and aircraft hardware catalogs.

Here's a few examples:
http://www.ddaircraft.com/subcategory.c ... gory=BOLTS
http://www.aircraftspruce.com/menus/ha/bolts.html
and links
http://www.aircraftfastener.com/
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Post by rixm37 »

Now those are some interesting links, I never thought about aircraft quality fasteners before!
Man the D&D aircraft supply has some nice stuff. How about the jig for drilling safety wire holes in bolts, and Clecos I haven't seen them in years cool stuff!
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Hello Ric,

When I was living in Tucson there was a very good used tool store down town. I used to buy a lot of tools there. I used to work out at Marana and lived over near Canyon Del Rio High School.


Here's a few acft tool outlets:
http://www.browntool.com/
http://www.aircraft-tool.com/
http://www.ustool.com/store/cart.php?m=content&page=6
http://www.yardstore.com/
http://www.usatco.com

and a couple more hardware:
http://www.ecasinc.com/
http://www.skybolt.com/

If you ever get up around Wichita KS there's a Boeing outlet store on the southeast beltline near McConnel AFB.
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Post by T. Highway »

Hey CUZ, Thanks for sharing the links to the tool outlets.
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Post by Brian Mc. »

it is as simple as using different alloy grades 304 ss bolts (most common)and 316 ss nuts to prevent galling .
I sell fasteners here in Houston to some chemical plants and shipyards and that is how they prevent it.
here is the link:
http://www.estainlesssteel.com/gallingofstainless.html
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Pick up all my brackets from being powder coated and needed your pictures to put them back togetter, now to get the oak wood :shock: [ouch]! $$$$. :lol:
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anthony manzella wrote: .....now to get the oak wood :shock: [ouch]! $$$$. :lol:
If I remember my geography correctly from my days of driving Trailways buses from St. Louis to Chicago, Crestwood is in Cook County. You might as well say "Chicago." (Ooops! Sorry! Didn't mean to insult you there!)

Anyway, I can see where oak would be pretty expensive in your neck of the woods. Go downstate to some small town lumber yard in farming country and you'll find it's a bit cheaper. More expensive than pine, yes, but far less than you'll pay for it up there! I redid the bed in a '52 Chevy about 6 years ago, and the oak for the bed floor cost me about $60 if I recall correctly.
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Is that Bush dollars or Obama dollars? :wink:
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Those woulda been Bush dollars. If they'd have been Eisenhower dollars, I coulda prob'ly got by for 5 bucks! ;)
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Pick up all my wood at the local Menards pre sanded just need to round the edges off seal it up with some of that valspar or some Goose Grease / tongue oil, and giver a good old spit shine. 8) :lol: 13 pcs of oak wood 129.39. :wink: .
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Total of bolts/nuts/washers for troop seats and headache rack ,looks to be 44 of each Stainless vs Galvenize :?
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