O/T Spring Clips

[c7trp]

Does anyone know where to get those top-hat shaped spring clips that press onto the end of steel rods.

 

Bit hard to describe really. They hold the wheels on a childs toy and just press onto the end of a 6mm bar.

 

Cheers

 

Tim

[Bellissimmo]

I'm pretty sure I've seen these at our local DIY warehouse. Worth giving them a try.

 

Steve

[Stationary M25 Traveller]

They are called starlocks. Available from any decent fastener supplier. We used them on plain stainless hinge pins as a cost-saving measure, but they weren't as secure as external circlips in a groove on the shaft.

 

 

[c7trp]

Cheers SM25T

 

You've helped make a little boy in Oz happy 😬

 

I'm giving his mum's old tricycle its 30 year rebuild ready for the new arrival.

 

BRG with yellow stripe of course 😬

[Stationary M25 Traveller]

Afterthought - we used open ones, I guess there is another variety called domed or closed starlocks perhaps ?

 

Google came up with loads of sites - here is a typical one.

 

 

 

Edited by - Stationary M25 Traveller on 16 Sep 2008 08:13:17

[c7trp]

Yup - just blagged 4 freebies from them 😬

[Stationary M25 Traveller]

You mean pre-production samples for evaluation and analysis 😬