Great Amazon Metric Fastener Pages

Found some great pages at Amazon that let you select various sizes of fasteners.  I called Amazon to see if there was a way to locate all pages with these awesome selection menus, but it seems there's not.  If anybody knows a way, please leave a note!

Till then, just recording these:  machine screws, pan head screws, steel hex nuts,

Fastener Grades.

So I was trying to figure out what M3 fasteners to order at Mr Metric, and fell into the standard state of confusion when offered too many choices I didn't understand.  So, here's the relative price breakdown of a standard piece (or close; I didn't bother to confirm that the M8 piece I randomly selected was available in all the materials).  Sorted by price, with the different sizes marked with ***.  All the items reference standard DIN439B.

Note that Mr Metric has a huge price break at 101 pieces, so be sure and pick that number and not 100.


class              size     type                         price
-----              ----     ----                         -----
STEEL CLASS 4 ZINC M8X1.25  Jam Nut Steel 4 Zinc         .04
STEEL CLASS 8 ZINC M10X1.25 Jam Nut Steel 8 Zinc         .05 ***
STEEL CLASS 8      M7X1.0   Jam Nut Steel 8              .05 ***
BRASS              M10X1.5  Jam Nut Brass                .15 ***
STAINLESS STEEL A2 M8X1.25  Jam Nut Stainless Steel A2   .15
STAINLESS STEEL A4 M8X1.25  Jam Nut Stainless Steel A4   .21 

Metric Fasteners, Great Price!

Much thanks to coworker Drew who told me about Mr. Metric, which has great prices on (as you might have guessed) metric parts.  They've even got M2 sizes.  Various grades, etc.  $6 flat rate shipping, and free shipping over $50.  Example price: M3x8 stainless steel socket head screw (pictured), $.06 each in quantities of 101.

Update:  I don't recommend KOVA fasteners from India, no matter how many times they leave spam in the comments below!  Update: and Udehra too! Update: three times, Udehra stop it!  And Indian Cutting Tools!

Metric Sizes at RTL Fasteners

RTL Fasteners has a great collection of metric fasteners at what seems to be a pretty good price.  Way better than the local hardware store, where they seem to believe that M2 and M3 fasteners are made  from 24K gold!  The have a giant super-pack as well.

Anti-vibration fasteners

FrozenCPU.com has a lot of grommets, etc, designed to reduce vibrations from hard drives.  Could these be useful for mounting quad controller boards?