Spare nuts and washers for switchcraft jacks?

Xsmnmy

Title says it! Pal of mine starting up as a gtr tech /repair and needs to buy in bulk in UK 
thanks

ICBM

Not trying to be funny, but why does he need the nuts and not the jacks? When you buy the jacks you get a nut and (plain) washer - shakeproof washers do need to be bought separately usually.

Very quickly you build up a collection of spare nuts and washers, since when you replace an old Switchcraft jack on a vintage guitar it's usually visually better to re-use the old ones, not the shiny new ones.

If he really does need to buy them, Allparts sell them - although they're not cheap and not the highest quality, they're stamped rather than the milled ones you get with a Switchcraft jack.

Xsmnmy

He doesn't need hundreds but it's handy to have more than a handful - I was thinking of a more general supplier - a plain washer for example costs 0.25p in the real world, but if you order a guitar jack socket washer from Allparts it's probably £2 + £3 postage or something. I have found some suppliers of 3/8 32 flat nuts in the meantime, thanks.

ICBM

smnmy said:

He doesn't need hundreds but it's handy to have more than a handful - I was thinking of a more general supplier - a plain washer for example costs 0.25p in the real world, but if you order a guitar jack socket washer from Allparts it's probably £2 + £3 postage or something. I have found some suppliers of 3/8 32 flat nuts in the meantime, thanks.

Sure, but if you buy a bulk pack of something like 25 or 100 jacks then the nuts and washers are free . You'll run out of jacks before nuts, trust me .

gavin_axecaster

Probably not the volume or pricing he's looking for, but I sell packs of 8 nuts, washers and locking washers.
http://www.axecaster.co.uk/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=9_26

streethawk

ICBM said:

smnmy said:

He doesn't need hundreds but it's handy to have more than a handful - I was thinking of a more general supplier - a plain washer for example costs 0.25p in the real world, but if you order a guitar jack socket washer from Allparts it's probably £2 + £3 postage or something. I have found some suppliers of 3/8 32 flat nuts in the meantime, thanks.

Sure, but if you buy a bulk pack of something like 25 or 100 jacks then the nuts and washers are free . You'll run out of jacks before nuts, trust me .

I have loads spare. Can't imagine a situation where I'd need to buy them.