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...hex grub screws, please?

I have looked at my regular haunts, Axminster and Screwfix, and they don't seem to stock them.

Thanks!!

Google say:

http://www.fastfixdirect.co.uk/code/navigation.asp?fType=Fas teners&MainCategoryID=19

For example. I get mine at a local hardware store (sells mostly to trade customers, so carries a boatload of hardware of all kinds, and has an even bigger catalog with stuff they can order around the back).

i just found a small engineering supplies in Mcr that has EVERYTHING in the world - its actually in a house in a side street, i was directed there from a larger tool shop.
Yellow pages, engineering supplies section might pay off, good luck.
if you really struggle send me a list of what you want and i'll try at my place here
all the best

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Curtis, bingo. Engineering supplies. YOU are a star!!

I was looking at hardware stores on the web/in my locality, and the trail got cold.

Where do you come from in the UK, then?

Mattia, I'll look at Fastfix. Cheers.

Okay, found a supplier who sells them in packs of 5 instead of 200...

http://www.nutsboltsandthings.co.uk/grubscrews.htm

Thanks for your help guys.

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Where do you come from in the UK, then?

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I'm from somerset but i live in sunny manchester, i co-run a repair workshop in a gigantic music shop, drop by for a brew anytime you're passing and swap notes - both types :)

have to warn you that once you enter the engineering supplies you can never leave!! i was trained as an prec engineer years ago by a great toolmaker - i thanks him in the back of my mind every day for getting the foundations instilled in me...and the love of tools

just bought a fylde...droool..cant stop playing or just thinking about it!

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I am also from Somerset, grew up in a village ten miles south of Bridgewater. Lived in Street (near Glastonbury) for a couple years, then down to Exmouth....

People ask my why I live on the Welsh Border now....well it's simply QUIETER up here!!!

Durn, I was in Manchester a month ago!!!!!!- but I'll be up there again in due course to get my Lowden fix (just looking at 'em is enough!) and music book browsing at Forsythes....


Congrats on the Fylde, what species is it? I played an Alchemist the other day and was amazed at the complex tone- a really rich "red wine" lively sound with grest projection.

no way!? I was born and raised just along from Bridgewater, in Wellington (maybe that should be 'reared' in place of raised)

moved north to go to uni and love the people here...

I have friends near the Welsh border - beautiful part of the world, we go to the brecons occaisionally, love it there.

its a goodfellow, nice and simple, sounds and plays great. Its the kind of thing i'm hoping to offer at some point. great workhorses. i'm not too into the overly-dressed up stuff...having said that if someone offere me an OM45 i may change my mind :)

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no way!? I was born and raised just along from Bridgewater, in Wellington (maybe that should be 'reared' in place of raised...[/QUOTE]

WAY!

LOL, Bridgewater is a bit of a dive, 'innit? That's why I ignored the first four years of my life there before we moved to the countryside. I used to live on the edge of Sedgemoor...

Then if you want to visit the "beautiful" North Somerset Coastline, there's the unforgettable view of Hinkley Point power station...the half sunken Ford Fiestas in the muds of Burnham-on-Sea...thank goodness for the Quantocks hills!!

Hah, thanks for alowing me to revisit my childhood!!

Ps, do you have a Somerset accent? I lost mine on purpose YEARS ago!!

i try to hide the accent but it slips out whenever i get excited hahaha,
nah really i dont have much of one, although i do put it on loads as everyone i work with calls me either 'feral boy / fez' or 'jethro' or whatever, and i keep the idiosyncratic west country phrases flowing back - 'Ow's yer yield?' 'Disturbed a jaspers nest t'other day and they chased i inside - baaaaaasters' etc...its great.
My wife is actually from Stroud and we jokingly (honest) talk to each other in the most hardcore accents we can, in fact we dont even notice that we do it anymore, to the point when we're out and doing it (especially at home in the south west) it gets slightly embarrassing when we realise! i doubt they'd believe she's a Dr of nuclear medicine :)
love it tho, its a great place.
just down a bit along the north devon coast is very beautiful tho, gorgeous infact. had a stag do of wild camping, clay shooting and falconry with 20 mates there a few years ago - what a weekend :)
love the north tho, the honesty, humour, friendly people etc are what make you see past the grey concrete. i'd love to get back to the countryside eventually though - no question.

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Hubby has been talking about moving back to the Westcountry....we haven't lived in Cornwall yet... But I love it up here....

LOL on the accent thing though ... "Youm Buggurrrrghs!!" was the common phrase coming out of the mouth of my landlady back in the College days when we used to play tricks on her....I actually miss this little phrases, especially "Ahhrgh, Loverrr"

Thing is though, the Westcountry has been ruined by Townies..that's why I'm up north!!

Hmmm, seems that I have hijacked my own thread...

haha, sorry bout that - its a constant source of amusement tho :)

getting back to what the thread was about, places like local precision engineers are great places to buy aluminium sheet etc from in the size you want. They generally dont really want such small sales and will give you what you want for a small cash price, plus its a good time to ask around for the better tool shops in the area. I worked at a fabrication workshop for several years and we often had private mini jobs like that to do. It seems to me that hardware stores in the UK are very poor compared to the US etc - i dont know why, but there's always ways round it. Its kind of like the repair shop where i am, people ask for the raw materials sometimes because they arent sure where else to look. One bloke gave me two tubes of silicone sealer for a fender bridge allen key once - saved me about ?15!

I'm always on the lokout for wood suppliers in the UK, any details you hve would be much appreciated moi luverrrr :)

cheers

steve

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Well, I have only been building guitars for 18 months, and already I have found a major problem from ordering from major suppliers in the US (Like Stewmac)

Whilst I don't ever seem to have a problem with smaller suppliers like some of the great ones on this forum, every time I order from Stewmac, I get a customs invoice. I got one last week and my husband said, "They're onto you now!!"

And of course the hardware stores in the UK are pretty dire, being a nation of "specialist" stores, and especially with regards to all my local hardware chainstores, seem to sell incredible poor quality tools. Simply I couldn't just walk into my local B&Q and pick up grub screws!!!

I ended up getting those grub screws from www.modelfixings.co.uk

Just arrive in the post today, how's that for speed?

Boi duh way, Oi'll PM yooh the wood Supploierrrs, me luverrr...(Oi've 'ahd too much coider.. )

So, for farm boy from Texas; what does a GRUB SCREW do?

 

Thanks,

Dave Wikins

It holds something in place......

think of a bolt with a conical tip, with the head cut off and a hex recess cut into the end to tighten it.

ever used meccano? grub screws hold the pulleys/wheels onto the shafts.

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AAAAh!  A "Set Screw".  Thanks for the answer.  Dave, thanks for asking. I was chickin! 

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A grub screw I imagine, is called such...



because of the similarity in appearance to this...

There are similarities! It's probably good that the screw isn't curved like the grub it represents. 

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