Nuts and bolts....

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Any recommendations for a website that let's you put together your own order of various nuts and bolts, needing options like zinc coated, serrated nuts, countersunk heads etc and all different sizes!
 

Alchad

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I use Spalding Fasteners ebay shop for anything that local suppliers don't have. Delivery is a day or 2 rather than a week with some others.
Another vote for Spaldings, although I tend to just use their main website.

I did a comparison a while back of various suppliers for a selection of nuts/bolts/washers for a Land Rover I was doing up and Spaldings were the cheapest. Not an exercise I’d recommend for busy farmers at this time of year as it was quite time consuming , but perhaps try it in the winter, it was interesting how prices varied and how say if a particular bolt was cheaper with one supplier, the nuts might be more expensive - basic marketing I guess😀.

Back to Spaldings, they are also good in that the P&P charges are very reasonable and tend to use Royal Mail for small orders.

However it can get tricky when you start looking for larger tractor size nuts and bolts, then I’ve found it‘s best to check out a few suppliers as prices and P&P charges can vary considerably.

Also one final recommendation - create a folder in your browser “favorites’ section for nuts/bolt suppliers and add suppliers to it as you come across them. It’s easy to forget some (as you get older).


Alchad
 

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