Places to buy O-rings

[QUAS_UMA]

you ppl think a standard hardware store would sell an o-ring for a crossman 2100, for the valve. or is there some kind of online place or some pl who would sell special o-rings for various gun stuff. hat say you!

[jezX]

home hardware or canadian tire have them . or ones that work just as good . also many otheres princess auto , otheres sell $5 kits with lots o sizes .
hat say i .

[ABshooter]

African Tire should have them.

[bionic]

does crosman not have the part your after?

[cfraser]

Considering where most of their products are made, why doesn't anybody call them Chinese Tire?

Yeah, they have many common sizes of the smaller non-metric nitrile O-rings. They are of decent quality, much stronger than you might expect, better than most of their hardware these days...

[Aaron]

you can (normally) find O-rings at most hardware type stores....
gas station down the street sells a kit for 2.50

[MIL-DOT]

For valves, tubes, etc. you may want better grade of o-rings like Viton or EPDM.

[Jester]

How do you know what grade an O-Ring is? Does it usually say on the label when you buy them? I bought a kit of 225 last week from Princess Auto and I don't think it says anything about the material on the container.

Thanks

[cfraser]

If you build stuff, or fix stuff etc., there's always one place you can get just about any material or piece of hardware available, and that's McMaster-Carr. It's best to get their printed catalog (kinda expensive, and large), but you can do not bad online. Check out their table of properties of O-ring materials. They are quite friendly people and ship to Canada.

If you don't know what material an O-ring is, before using it, consider how hard it is to replace, and what the consequences (dangerous, expensive??) are if it fails.

[TCooper]

Try AR THOMSON in Canada.

http://www.arthomson.com/body_index.html

HTH,
Todd

[MIL-DOT]

You can special order o-rings from suppliers. Phone around and ask. I bought Viton in Saskatoon at Bearing and Transmission. One obvious differance is cost. The Viton were$.33 each.

[MIL-DOT]

There is also a differance in temp. tolerance above and below 0 degrees. I also would think that o-rings for hydraulics would be a better grade.

[TCooper]

Here is a list of the sales offices for AR Thomson. They have an office in Mississauga for the southern Ontario guys.

http://www.arthomson.com/locations.html

I bought HW40 seals from AR Thomson. They had the #009 nitrile o-ring and quad seal in 70 durometer (breech seal). They also had the #117 nitrile o-ring in 90 durometer for the piston seal. They work great.
AR Thomson also has many other types of seal material and a huge selection of sizes.

Seal sizes http://www.arthomson.com/oring_guide.pdf

It looks like they have o-rings in neoprene, viton, teflon, buna, silicone, etc.
http://www.arthomson.com/seals.html

Todd

[MIL-DOT]

That's a good website. It should be loads of help to many!

[scruffie]

For anybody in the Vancouver area willing to come to my shop the odds are I will have most o-rings/seals in stock and if so they can have them,no charge, or will help them find the correct ones if I don't as one of my one of my seal suppliers is two blocks down the road. (ie) the spare rebuild kit that came with my Drozd I had them all. I Remanufacture manual and hydraulic steering systems and so have lots of different types&sizes on hand.