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skid plate washers

Damn, If I still had my lathe I could make them easy for ya. I agree, button head, but they don't make button heads in 7/16, only smaller or half inch.
 
Button head would work but i have a customer asking about the washers. he was looking for some to run on his race buggy. and i liked his idea so i thought i would put them on my skid plate for the jimmy and the one on my bros CJ7.
 
Get yourself a strip of Delrin and then drill large enough holes so that the crossmember bolts will fit inside of the large holes then drill and counterbore some smaller mounting holes to bolt the Delrin to the frame so those bolt heads don't get rock rash. The Delrin is a fairly slippery plastic and would be alot better I would think than dragging the frame across rocks and such.
 
GMC1977 said:
cool idea. where do i buy that stuff?
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Just search for Delrin suppliers. Shop around, price varies by a HUGE amount. Generally it pricy but you may find a decent price. The local plastics supplier quoted me $183 bucks a foot for 4" diameter round bar. Thats CRAZY expensive. I found it alot cheaper online. Do you know how much you need and in what size?
 
i figured like 3 inches wide by however long and about 5/16 to 3/8 of an inch thick so i can make them pretty beefy.
 
Fordum said:
Not recommending this price, but they do make them.
http://www1.mscdirect.com/CGI/NNSRIT?PMPXNO=6319924&PMT4NO=84155434

Actually, I would go with a countersunk socket head screw that fit flush with the plate.
Don't have a listing for them offhand, but they are out there.

J.
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Wow! Thay used to not make them. Years ago I pro streeted my 69' chevy short bed pickup. I widened the wheel wells with another set of factory wheel wells cut and welded together with the set already in the truck. I wanted to use 7/16-14 button head fasteners so I started looking for them. I searched all over the country at distributors, and fastener manufacturers. Brand name companies, every where I could call, I called. Made probably a hundred and fifty calls atleast and finally determined they just don't exist. This is about 20 years ago I'm talking about. Glad to see somebody makes them now. Thanks for posting that.
 
i'm mounting my skid with flat countersunks like i've used thruout my build...

like these....

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I've been racking my brain trying to find something that I saw only once while surfing various supplier's websites.

It was bascially a 2-piece washer designed to hold a countersinking screw, the inner washer had an offset hole drilled through it to act like an eccentric bolt. The idea was that even if the hole in the skidplate was slightly "off" the washers would rotate around as the screw was tightened and automatically line itself up over the threaded hole.

The concept was similiar to a 2-piece conical washer, but it is designed to compensate for lateral offset problems instead of vertical offset problems.

Has anyone seen what I'm talking aboot?? :dunno:



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