Help! I may be 'screwed', **news flash - SOLVED** Options

[moparrob]

I was in the process of polishing my brass Weber carb bits (I know, I know) when the buffing wheel caught the last piece I was polising and sent it somewhere into orbit. Man, not even a sound to track it by...

The carbs are Weber 40 IDA3C 's and the part I lost is number 55 on a Weber diagram - it is the progression port slotted screw and looks like this:

(IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/i954.photobucket.com-11663-1309043911.1.jpg)


If anyone happens to have an extra one they would be willing to donate or sell it would be much appreciated.

Any leads on buying a new one would be great also.

Thanks

[moparrob]

I actually bought my rebuild kits and an idle air screw from them, but their website is really poorly constructed. Specifically their search engine does not provide a great sense of confidence that something is actually out of stock - or if the engine just missed the query entirely.

When I tried to search for the part numbers it told me it found no such entry.

I suppose I could have waited until Monday to call them, but that is why I like shopping over the internet; it is on my time and vendors with good websites should be rewarded.

[ArtechnikA]

I actually bought my rebuild kits and an idle air screw from them, but their website is really poorly constructed. ... vendors with good websites should be rewarded.

PMO once upon a time 'Porsche Mail Order', until PCNA's legal team went after them.

They keep the website simple because they want to discourage individual parts purchases without contacting them first.

They're a small company. They don't have a website real-time linked to a big inventory system like the big players do. They do not want to have to deal with a constant stream of returns from people who bought the wrong part, and with items as subtly different as Webers, there are thousands of variations. Coupled with the fact that for a long time, the supply situation for parts varied daily as manufacturers moved production around the world - Italy, Spain, China, others I'm sure.

The good news is that their support model really does work. Fax them what you need with contact information and you'll probably get a call back from Richard Parr himself.

They are not alone in having this model. Go try to buy a camshaft from Jake's site - you can't. Their personal-service model makes sure you get the right parts for what you're actually doing.

(I've also dealt with companies with glitzy websites and "in-stock" status only to discover the website was just a front to a big distributor network, they didn't actually stock anything, and the part I wanted wasn't actually available anyway.)

[Edited to correct some misinformation I mistakenly posted after misremembering. Fixed.]