Re: [DML] Modified Trailing Arms For 1/2" Bolts

["Martin Gutkowski" <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

M12 cap screws are boggo standard and dirt cheap also. Unfortunately they tend to be only blackened not plated.

Martin

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Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:58:46 
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Subject: Re: [DML] Modified Trailing Arms For 1/2" Bolts

Grade 9+ bolts can be purchased very affordably. Even Grade 12.9's are less than $12 apiece.

I do not understand why certain owners are criticizing my latest modification, when by the numbers the bolts I am considering are *STRONGER*, both tensile and yield, than bolts sold by any of the vendors.

Fastenal's imported bolts are less desirable in my book than Made in USA Bowmalloys or Lawsons, if for no other reason than because they are undercutting domestic manufacturing. But then again, Fastenal has taken so much heat over using foreign suppliers that they probably are watching them very closely. If I do end up using Fastenals, I will still continue my quest for a pair of 200,000 lbs bolts.

Toby's bolts are indeed nice, but they have been NLA for nearly a decade now.

Bill Robertson
#5939

--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, stevedmc@... wrote:
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> Back in 2000 a meatball sandwich at Subway cost $1.99.  I know this because I was a poor kid just finishing high school. 
> 
> Today the same sanwhich costs $3.49. I know this because I am poor white trash.  
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> Based on the laws of subology a set of "Toby TABs" should cost about $131.532663 today.  
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> It would be silly for anyone to think they should still cost $75 for a set.  
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Feb 7, 2012, at 22:51, Martin Gutkowski <martin@...> wrote:
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> > Toby's TABs were heat treated Inconel 718 - you won't easily find that 
> > esp for the price
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> > Martin
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> > On 07/02/2012 20:01, content22207 wrote:
> >> I've got Toby's bolts in #5939. Paid $75 for the pair at the time.
> >> 
> >> There is a company in your part of the world that advertises itself as an Inconel 718 specialist: http://www.lightningboltandsupply.com/alloys-inconel-718.html
> >> I may contact them just to see what they can do. Toby claimed at the time that his Inconel 718 bolts were nearly 220,000 lbs tensile strength, 200,000 lbs yield strength, but Inconel 718 bar stock does not come up that high in online searches. He included a lab test sheet with his bolts, but mine is long gone (anybody save theirs?).
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> >> Bill Robertson
> >> #5939
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