Clam Fastners - Group Buy?

[searsy]

All,

I've been looking for some replacement fasteners for my clams for ages and finally I found them after a week of searching:-

http://www.milspecproducts.com/product/c-spec-2600...

I think it is MS2600-7S $2.60 each (please correct me if I am wrong)

The restrictive thing is the postage at $43 its more than double the price of a full set of fasteners

Group buy anyone??? Happy to do all the legwork everyone just pays the post equally and onward shipping .....unless our US based colleagues have a better way?

Have also posted on the FB Page

Will wait 10 days before I do anything to see how many responses we get.

[mrpbailey]

Is this for both the top and bottom part? South west lotus charge £30 each for these, nearly killed me when I needed 1 quickly!!
If final price is reasonable then I'm in for the group buy

[XLRONYX]

Related question: Have any of you removed the part that is bonded to the clam?

I switched to AeroCatches and want to remove the factory parts. I'm wondering how big and ugly the resulting holes will be.



Jeff

[searsy]

XLRONYX said:

Related question: I switched to AeroCatches and want to remove the factory parts. I'm wondering how big and ugly the resulting holes will be.
Jeff

It's the size of the inside of the clam fastener (if you look at the drawing I posted its the part marked 248), it's not bonded either its held on with circlips but you'd need to grommet or fill and paint the hole for sure can post a pic if you want to see it.

Edited by searsy on Sunday 25th January 09:54

[searsy]

mrpbailey said:

Is this for both the top and bottom part? South west lotus charge £30 each for these, nearly killed me when I needed 1 quickly!!
If final price is reasonable then I'm in for the group buy

It was SW Lotus that made me look elsewhere

You can buy the bottoms if you want, but I only need the top parts, happy to include in the overall purchase

[kenloen]

give Trident racing Supplies in silverstone a call. they stock all parts needed, I think it was about £5 per set..

[patsrocket]

How do you swap them out and get them to work easier?
It seems the little pins won't stay centered and I don't see how a new one would stay centered either.
I have replacements but never bothered since it seemed new ones would not work any better.

[searsy]

If its the same ones patsrocket good find, someone did mention Trident to me on FB but I thought they were only anodised... If they are full on Stainless ones they'll do the job....unless I can relieve you of your spares

Must admit AndyGTT did say he's bear clipped his so when you shut down the clam it stays shut.... (its expensive when it flips open on the move...and embarrassing) I will change mine at some point, the replacement fasteners are just an interim measure.

[TrackMonkey]

Im up for a set

[TuxMan]

I used a spot of super glue to stop the pins moving when I replaced mine .

[searsy]

Sent a msg to Trident, just waiting for a response, will give them a buzz on Monday

[andygtt]

searsy said:

If its the same ones patsrocket good find, someone did mention Trident to me on FB but I thought they were only anodised... If they are full on Stainless ones they'll do the job....unless I can relieve you of your spares

Must admit AndyGTT did say he's bear clipped his so when you shut down the clam it stays shut.... (its expensive when it flips open on the move...and embarrassing) I will change mine at some point, the replacement fasteners are just an interim measure.

I fitted double bear catches to the front and rear clips and removed the original clam fasteners completely... now when my clams are closed they are always latched even if I have not been round and checked them... I do have to push the rears down hard to get them double latched, but if I forget its still fully secure and won't accidentally open.

Was a bit of a faf to fit, but cost me a grand total of £20 for all the catches... the one and only time I forgot to do the original rear clam fasteners up it cost my insurance close to £10k (and me £850 in excess)... no man maths was required

I also removed the little wings that go under the window instead of fitting wheel arch vents or cutting my A pillars to vent the arch and reduce front lift massively... and no the screen does not get covered in crap now.

All in all a very cheap and yet massively effective mod IMO.

[searsy]

searsy said:

Sent a msg to Trident, just waiting for a response, will give them a buzz on Monday

Feck me!!! (and I don't swear that often) The guy at Trident is a complete a$$ I've phoned him 3 times and 3 times he's just made stuff up about me contacting him, 1st he says we've spoken and I say we've not so he says we're getting nowhere and puts the phone down, so I send him detailed pics and explain what I want, I call him, he says why don't you send me a picture of what it is, I sigh and say yes I'll do that. So I resend the pictures and then leave it a couple of days and phone him and he says why don't you go to Noble, I say because you sell them cheaper, he says I asked you what the number on the top of the fastner I say you did? OK sorry I say (I don't know why) its 7 I say so he says I'll send you some.....and then he puts the phone down.....how?! he doesn't even have my address or payment

[macky17]

searsy said:

Feck me!!! (and I don't swear that often) The guy at Trident is a complete a$$ I've phoned him 3 times and 3 times he's just made stuff up about me contacting him, 1st he says we've spoken and I say we've not so he says we're getting nowhere and puts the phone down, so I send him detailed pics and explain what I want, I call him, he says why don't you send me a picture of what it is, I sigh and say yes I'll do that. So I resend the pictures and then leave it a couple of days and phone him and he says why don't you go to Noble, I say because you sell them cheaper, he says I asked you what the number on the top of the fastner I say you did? OK sorry I say (I don't know why) its 7 I say so he says I'll send you some.....and then he puts the phone down.....how?! he doesn't even have my address or payment

Amnesia? I sold a car to a guy like that once. Poor fella had to ask me everything 6 times. Unfortunately he remembered he'd paid me.

[Quantum Steve]

[quote=searsy]

Feck me!!! (and I don't swear that often) The guy at Trident is a complete a$$ I've phoned him 3 times and 3 times he's just made stuff up about me contacting him, 1st he says we've spoken and I say we've not so he says we're getting nowhere and puts the phone down, so I send him detailed pics and explain what I want, I call him, he says why don't you send me a picture of what it is, I sigh and say yes I'll do that. So I resend the pictures and then leave it a couple of days and phone him and he says why don't you go to Noble, I say because you sell them cheaper, he says I asked you what the number on the top of the fastner I say you did? OK sorry I say (I don't know why) its 7 I say so he says I'll send you some.....and then he puts the phone down.....how?! he doesn't even have my address or payment

Hahaha! I know this should not be funny but I may have an answer - I saw your thread, my 3R is in bits for a winter refurbishment, I need new lower clam fastenings, phoned Trident, went through what I want, he could not understand, he took my address and sent through a catalogue, he must be confused, one minute he is talking to me, the next you... if I get some bits in the post I'll let you know... by the way their lower part is fixed and not adjustable depth so no use]

[searsy]

Quantum Steve]earsy said:

Hahaha! I know this should not be funny but I may have an answer - I saw your thread, my 3R is in bits for a winter refurbishment, I need new lower clam fastenings, phoned Trident, went through what I want, he could not understand, he took my address and sent through a catalogue, he must be confused, one minute he is talking to me, the next you... if I get some bits in the post I'll let you know... by the way their lower part is fixed and not adjustable depth so no use]

LMAO!! Bleedin stupid old fool!! Cheers Steve, its the washer (if you can call it that) that recesses into the top of the clam, the top fastener and the circlip that I need, mine are looking a bit shabby (8 to be precise)

[mgbond]

I would be up for a couple

[Quantum Steve]

searsy said:

LMAO!! Bleedin stupid old fool!! Cheers Steve, its the washer (if you can call it that) that recesses into the top of the clam, the top fastener and the circlip that I need, mine are looking a bit shabby (8 to be precise)

I'm the opposite...... the washer and top part in the clam are OK, it's the lower receptacle I need, they have corroded. The Trident Camloc parts look similar if you just need your parts but really the only place I can find them is here http://store.skybolt.com/sk215-4-p837.aspx

[searsy]

Hey Steve / Bondy - Just been on their site...it is like finding a needle in a haystack so many sizes and parts I don't want to order the wrong part and I can't get the shipping details out of the site either, maybe we need to speak to Noble directly and get the part numbers from them, doubt they are going to give us their UK stockist though and I'm certainly not paying £30 per item from SWLC.

If they only sell the entire items though we can split some of them as Steve only needs the recepticles and I only need the fastener/clips

[mgbond]

I only need the tops as on some the screw drive point has warn