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Where can I find these all metal lock nuts that the factory uses? These are not the conical style. Belmetric doesnt show them, nor does McMaster-Carr. Also tried Metric Specialties. There must be a source.
Back when I bought a ton of fasteners I used Metric & Multistandard Components Corp and Spaenaur. And unlike the run of the mill hardware store yellow-zinc fasteners, you could buy them with coatings that are even thicker than what Porsche specs.
The "FS All Steel Lock Nut" or, for you German speakers, the "FS-Ganzstahl-Sicherungsmutter" !!
Maybe I can locate a distributor...
I know my local shop would buy a bunch if they were at a good price.
EDIT: I found them at https://eu.shop.bossard.com/ch/de/, which is a distributor for Flaig-Hommel, but even there they work out to about 65 Euro for 100 count of M6. Amazing. These are not inexpensive nuts.
That pricing is getting more reasonable. But if I buy 200 M6 and maybe 100 M8, for multiple projects, it adds up.
EDIT: I found them at https://eu.shop.bossard.com/ch/de/, which is a distributor for Flaig-Hommel, but even there they work out to about 65 Euro for 100 count of M6. Amazing. These are not inexpensive nuts.
Price them from MetricMCC, i don't think I ever spent more than a few dollars for 100 count boxes and prices couldn't have gone up that much.
Decided to order the OEM M8 nuts (23 ea) since these are crankcase nuts. I could use some extra M6 nuts (maybe 25 to 50?) as I'm sure I've kicked a few around the garage floor. Have any of you gents ordered from any of the above mentioned sources & are satisfied (i.e.closest duplicates the OEM's) ?
I ended up ordering from rmeuropean, link above. I took them to the platers and had them plated with another batch of bits. These are OE quality if not the very same the factory uses.
Robert, I reckon there's a small business in this supplying fastener sets. I found the same sort of difference with the stainless steel bolts and washers used in the lower engine covers.
Robert, I reckon there's a small business in this supplying fastener sets. I found the same sort of difference with the stainless steel bolts and washers used in the lower engine covers.
Bel-Metric has done that but there is still a 10x markup over the suppliers I linked to above. That's definitely better than the 100x markup from PAG and you don't have minimum order quantities but it's still outrageous, especially when you realize how many M6 and M8 nuts are used on a 964.
Bel-Metric has done that but there is still a 10x markup over the suppliers I linked to above. That's definitely better than the 100x markup from PAG and you don't have minimum order quantities but it's still outrageous, especially when you realize how many M6 and M8 nuts are used on a 964.
Agreed!! I used Bel-Metric for basically all the other fasteners that are not "specialized". It's only things like these locknuts that I sought the OEM version, and that's just me being OCD. In the grand scheme of all my other work, these last bits were inconsequential. After it all, I have a nice inventory of spare fasteners for any random repair.
09-01-2017 | 05:04 PM
Lock nuts ?
