upthebikes
Cast Iron
- Joined
- Aug 23, 2007
- Location
- Great Lakes USA
Speccing a system and need to source roughly 30,000 fasteners. Mostly shcs, some button, some flat. Sizes from 4-40 to 1.0-8. About 1/3 each black oxide, 18-8 and zinc plated.
Sent out a couple rfqs to the big boys already, and surprisingly just building a cart in McMaster w/ standard qty’s was the cheapest. That makes me feel like I’m missing something or contacting the wrong people …
Distro has to be stateside due to requirements, but country of origin is open.
If McMaster is the go, that’s not really an issue but I was honestly shocked that ordering 3000 1/4-20 1” shcs from them 100 box count at a time came back cheaper than 2 1500 count boxes from the 3 quotes I got back. Maybe qtys in the 1000s isn’t enough to bother quoting out? Any suggestions on who to contact?
Sent out a couple rfqs to the big boys already, and surprisingly just building a cart in McMaster w/ standard qty’s was the cheapest. That makes me feel like I’m missing something or contacting the wrong people …
Distro has to be stateside due to requirements, but country of origin is open.
If McMaster is the go, that’s not really an issue but I was honestly shocked that ordering 3000 1/4-20 1” shcs from them 100 box count at a time came back cheaper than 2 1500 count boxes from the 3 quotes I got back. Maybe qtys in the 1000s isn’t enough to bother quoting out? Any suggestions on who to contact?