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Old 10-30-2012, 11:45 AM   #16
Sammy
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Re: Air Fittings - Where to buy? Online? Local?

If you make a trip to ur local body shop that does insurance work find out where they purchase their replacement hardware required for insurance repairs. Their parts suppliers sell to anyone who walks in the door and love cash sales. But they have huge inventories for everything from huge semi-trucks to motorcycle hardware. Usually on hand or quickly available because of who they support. Smaller hardware such as screws n washers are usually bagged of 25 or 50 but are so reasonably priced the box stores can't compete. Air fittings though were individually priced. Air fittings are DOT approved for the application because of their customer base they support. When these guys buy stuff they buy in bulk and after pricing fittings on line. Prices for PTC fittings are real reasonable.
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