On Tue, 07 Feb 2017 18:24:30 -0700, Bob La Londe wrote:

I've been buying these 100 at a time from McMaster-Carr
https://www.mcmaster.com/#57455K51 for a $1.90 each. I'm starting to
use them up quick enough that I'd like to see if buying 250 - 500 might
find me a better price somewhere. I've checked obvious places like
Amazon, MSC, Carr-Lane, and EBAY. Essentra has nearly nothing. Zoro's
website is about worthless when you search for something they don't even
have and get 6000+ results. I used Google's site search and most of
Zoro's stuff was more than twice the price.

1/4-20 female insert phenolic handles. I don't want the ones MSC has
that have a formed thread. I want one with a female insert.

They get used on lead, tin, and pewter casting molds, so I don't really
want to get away from the modest heat handling of phenolic. My local
screw vendor doesn't have them. I asked.

Last time I looked around McMaster had the best price, but I was only
buying 20 at a time then. Maybe they still do.

I used to work at a place where every mechanical engineer had this big
catalog on his desk that was handles and shoulder screws and knobs and
whatnot from cover to cover. Now if I need something, I can't find it.
It's very frustrating. Fortunately, I mostly do circuit design and I DO
know where to find that stuff (except for connectors and switches -- and
that's everyone's bugaboo).

I got lots of hits on an ixquick search with the keywords "industrial
hardware phenolic handles". Amazon, of all places, has them -- you might
be able to track back from there to someone who'll sell in bulk.

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Tim Wescott
Wescott Design Services
http://www.wescottdesign.com

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