Fix Find eyenuts

[Wayco]

Has anyone had any luck getting the 1/4x20 eyenuts from this source. I ordered some last December through Amazon.com, waited until after the estimated delivery time, emailed them through Amazon and got no reply to my request for "Where's my stuff?" Checked the listing and they indicated they had two left. So I cancelled my Amazon order and ordered two directly from them. Automatic reply said they got my order and were processing it. Two days later I get a shipping notification with a tracking number and immediately another email that the items I ordered were back-ordered.
Since then all my emails and phone calls have been ignored.
Anyone have an order pending with them, or any info. that relates to this?

 

[warnerr]

no experience with that vender. great service from fastenall.com. they have 1/4/20 on up eye nuts.

 

[cvanc]

no experience with that vender. great service from fastenall.com. they have 1/4/20 on up eye nuts.

Bad link?

 

[BEAR]

I make my own. Lighter and smaller. Easy to do. I will tell you how if you want. Probably cheaper also, and can get the component at most hardware stores or Lowes and HD.
BEAR

 

[beezwax]

Yup I know this came up in CJ's DarkStar build thread. I had some 1/4-20 eyenuts in an order I placed with FixFind through Amazon back in December too. I did end up getting those items, but it took 24 days to receive and some of the other items in my order were never filled and eventually refunded. Too unreliable for any of my future business.

 

[JDcluster]

I don't use eye nuts but, rather eye bolts.
There is a place near by that sells them.
Unfortunately, they don't offer an online website for sales.


JD

 

[dlazarus6660]

Does a local hardware store carry them? The mom and pop kind?

 

[BEAR]

From my experience, some do and some do not. Sometimes they carry eye-bolts of the bent wire type (up to 1/2" dia. wire) and sometimes they carry the forged ones or the welded ones. Get those, the bent wire sometimes straighten out and your shock cord gets loose.

 

[GregGleason]

I make my own. Lighter and smaller. Easy to do. I will tell you how if you want. Probably cheaper also, and can get the component at most hardware stores or Lowes and HD.
BEAR

I'm interested. How do you do it?

Greg

 

[BEAR]

I hope you can make sense of my drawing. This method is much less weight than a forged eye-bolt or forged-eye-nut. The hole for securing the shock cord is not as big as you have with an eye-bolt or eye-nut, but it is adequate. It is not hard to make. I use an electric drill and a vice. I can get everything in the nuts and bolt section at the local ACE. I make several at a time, or enough for a dual deploy bird, so at least 3 when I do it. I have also made them smaller than 1/4", and I have taken bolts, drilled a hole into the head of an Allen head bolt and then taken a key ring and run that through to make smaller ones. I hope this helps and is off value. BEAR

 

[Wayco]

no experience with that vender. great service from fastenall.com. they have 1/4/20 on up eye nuts.

That's where I went when I couldn't get the $2.35 ones at Fix find. Even at $7.50 each, it beats a cheap eye nut that is backordered indefinitely.

Thanks to Bear for the ingenious alternative to a forged eye nut, and to others for their input. I'm really more interested in any info. regarding Fix Find than where to get an eye bolt.
Beezwax, when did you finally get your hardware?

 

[GregGleason]

Cool! I may have to try that sometime.

Greg

 

[beezwax]

Beezwax, when did you finally get your hardware?

I placed the order Dec 24 and as I recall it took 24 days to receive (most) of the items, with the remainder being refunded. So mid-January.