Hardware Weight

[Murray Randall]

This sounds extreme but MS 21042 nuts weigh half what AN365 nuts weigh.   0.03 oz vs 0.08 o for 10-32. Thats the best my scale gets.  Cost at Spruce is $.32 vs $.09 for 10-32.  I have an old can of them and use them when clearance is an issue.  Here I needed a bit of help on my rudder pedal attach.  But if you use 100 10-32 stop nuts it would save you 3 lbs for $23, so maybe its not all that dumb.  

[weasel]

 3 lbs for $23, 

Thats good return man! Anything less than $100/lb is a deal. Especially on these light planes.

[redmudislander]

If you weigh 10 of them at once it's like having an extra digit on the scale measuring one.

[Murray Randall]

Humble pie here. Punching the TI again its .3 lbs saved for 23 bucks cost increase using those MS nuts not the 3 lbs that I said. Off by a factor of ten. I'm sorry. I weighed and took the pic of the nuts before I thought to post the little game and I was honestly just using them for more clearance from the floor board. Here's a pic of my .020 floor board with 3/16 in beads rolled in. My old Pexto does not have enough arm length to reach as far as I thought it would before I started but it still looks OK.  Murray