Big Will_

I've got a bag of just over 100 titanium NAS bolts and washers to suit that came from an old race car restoration project i helped a friend with.

Part number NAS6404-23

I've got part of the original packaging which suggests they were made around January 2001.

Now out of curiosity i got a price for replacement bolts and was shocked to find that they were over $5 EACH!

I don't have any certificates or paperwork for them unfortunately as that stayed with the previous owner for his audit stuff.

Is there any way i can sell these for reasonable money anywhere that anyone knows of? Or is it a case of selling them in small batches on ebay? Or as scrap for £5 a kilo?

-beefy-

iTrader: (6)

ill have them

20 quid in your bank in the morn

RWD_cossie_wil

iTrader: (9)

Will, they are aircraft grade bolts. The NAS means Navy Airforce Specification.

Have a look on http://www.iso-parts.com/Public/Sear...ord=NAS6404-23

this is a big multi-national military parts website, can find all sorts of goodies and information on there!

Luca

iTrader: (2)

Anything made from Ti has doubled in value the last 18months

So sell wisely Will

Il see beefs bid and raise it £5

st3v3

Titanium would have been a rolled thread form, thus making the bolt extremely duarable, they will have, if Aero-spec, a larger Root radius with 60 degree thread flank angles (UNJF,MJ threadforms opposed to a Whitworth form which is 55 degree flank angles and a Non-Aeroapace application), which give the bolt a huge advantage over conventional bolts in shear strength.

We actually make the thread rolling dies that make the fasteners (bolts) for the Aerospace industry and in some casses the F1 industry.

http://www.spstech.com/aero/prod_lit..._fasteners.pdf

Chris69

NAS bolts are aircraft grade as already said and very expensive due to the very tough standards they have to meet.
we use them loads in Airbus where i work and i think the least expensive bolt is £8's worth- there are also supposed to only be used/torqued up twice before being thrown in the bin aswell lol
I don't know where you could sell them or wot use they may be as most companies assuming most are like Airbus would need batch and manufacturers traceability.

Big Will_

Wow - thanks for all the info guys!

They were off a Formula 1 car restoration project, but as i mentioned - no paperwork

So they are worth something - but going to be tricky to sell

Ok - so, £25... going once!

RWD_cossie_wil

iTrader: (9)

Just keep them mate, what thread size are they?

polly_x

iTrader: (2)

Will, ive got a White Westfield in the garage that surely needs them!

Big Will_

Not 100%, looks around M5/M6 - but i very much doubt it's metric! Bolt length is around 50mm with only the first 10mm threaded.

Not very helpful was it

Big Will_

Lol - you'll just have to 'find' a use for them

Ring Lee now, it's his birthday - he should be open to that suggestion

sbd16v

sounds like around the same sort of thread diameter as my tilton twin plate clutch,

polly_x

iTrader: (2)

He is too busy mulling over why he is going T6 when I sent him the link to the new Pectel MQ12 £8000 ECU today.

andy888

yup there aircraft spec bolts. use tonnes of them and many varients everyday. i overhaul CF6 aircraft engines....

Big Will_

And to think! - he could have had an £8000 ECU with only the 0% and 100% Throttle Position line mapped!

It's all that'd ever be referenced really...

Big Will_

So anyone any ideas how i might offload these other than Lucas offer of £25 and Stu's request to donate them to the budget westie?

-beefy-

iTrader: (6)

ill bump my offer to thirty - and 1 large parmo , place to stay when your next her and ill try and get you a blowjob of one of the slappers on the estate ,


beat that luca !!

i need sum titanium on my car !!!!

Big Will_

Going once...!

steveboyslim

I know a chap restoring a Footwork Arrows so hang on a bit if you can, he may take all of them.
Pm me a price.

Steve