Keep the spindle on parts that pay. Buy the standard hardware from stock at published prices — and send us the prints for the parts that aren't standard.
Every shop has done it: the customer's assembly needs a shoulder screw, a clevis pin, a handful of spacers — and rather than chase quotes on eleven trivial lines, someone throws them on a lathe between real jobs. It feels free. It is not. A turned MS-equivalent pin costs you setup, spindle time, deburring, inspection, and a spot in the schedule that a billable part wanted — to produce, at machine-shop cost, an item that exists in stock for under a dollar with a specification pedigree your homemade version will never have. And if the customer's drawing calls the standard number, your shop-made version is not even the called-out part.
The make-versus-buy line is simple to draw: if the callout resolves to a published standard, buy it; if the geometry is the customer's, machine it. Quick Brown Fox Solutions serves both sides of that line from one house. The stock catalog holds over 8,000 mil-spec hardware lines — screws, bolts, nuts, washers, rivets, pins, O-rings, fittings, bearings — each with a published unit price. And for the parts that are genuinely print-defined, our custom CNC machining is produced in the United States through an ISO 9001:2015 certified production network. One supplier, both halves of the BOM.
OEM drawings — especially legacy and defense-derived ones — are full of callouts that stall a purchasing search: an MS number superseded twice since the drawing was inked, an AN number the distributor's system rejects, a mil-spec reference with no part number at all. The fix is the part number lookup: it resolves MS, NAS, AN, AS, and M-prefix numbers, including superseded ones, to the underlying National Stock Number — and the NSN is the identifier that survives every supersession, because old and new part numbers share it. A stocked item shows its published price right on the page; the same item costs the same whichever identifier found it.
Two habits worth building into your quoting process. First, resolve hardware callouts at estimate time, not at purchasing time — published pricing means the hardware section of your quote to the customer is real numbers, not plug figures. Second, when a callout dead-ends everywhere, check whether you are actually allowed to buy it at all before assuming you must make it: our guide to buying NSN parts without a government contract covers the common misconception that stock-numbered hardware is government-only. It is not; the catalog is open to any buyer.
Published pricing. Every stocked item shows its unit price — no account, no minimum-line games at quote time. Cost the BOM's hardware section from the catalog while the estimate is still open.
Order by part number or NSN. Whatever the drawing says, the lookup resolves it, and the price is identical on every path.
Batch RFQs, acknowledged in one business day. Paste all the hardware lines with quantities into one RFQ; we return one consolidated quote with firm pricing, lead time, and a documentation list. One supplier record, one receiving event, one certificate package — instead of five distributor accounts for eleven lines. Volume pricing quoted on request.
Fulfillment within 90 days of order; minimum order may apply. That maps onto production schedules, not prototype-tomorrow schedules — release hardware with your material buy, and put the minimums into kanban stock for repeating assemblies. Every order ships with source documentation and country-of-origin paperwork; stock items are country of origin Türkiye (Turkey), a DFARS qualifying country, which matters if your assembly flows up into a defense contract — details on our defense contractors page.
Have a BOM open right now? Send the hardware lines through the form below and get one quote back.
Most suppliers make you choose: a hardware distributor cannot read a print, and a machine shop rolls its eyes at a fastener RFQ. We deliberately run both lines. The parts of your BOM that are print-defined — housings, shafts, brackets, manifolds — go to our U.S. custom machining line: milling, turning, 5-axis and Swiss work, with first-article inspection available, through an ISO 9001:2015 certified production network. The parts that are catalog-defined come off the shelf. For an OEM, that is one vendor qualification, one PO, and a hardware kit that arrives with the machined parts it bolts to.
Related buyer pages: if your customer is a defense prime, the origin rules on the defense contractors page are worth ten minutes; if you resell hardware into government solicitations yourself, see source of supply for DLA suppliers and resellers; and MRO-side shops should read aircraft hardware for MRO shops and operators.
Whenever the callout resolves to a published standard — MS, NAS, AN, AS, or a mil-spec — buy it. The stocked part costs cents against real spindle time and carries the specification's pedigree. Machine what is print-defined; buy what is catalog-defined.
Run it through the part number lookup — it resolves MS, NAS, AN, AS, and M-prefix numbers, including superseded ones, to the underlying NSN with the published price on the page.
Yes — one batch RFQ, one consolidated quote, acknowledged within one business day. Published pricing means you can pre-cost the list first.
Yes. Custom CNC machining, produced in the United States through an ISO 9001:2015 certified production network — so one supplier can cover both the stock and the print-defined halves of a BOM.
8,000+ stocked items with published pricing.
Resolve any MS, NAS, AN, or M-prefix callout.
No contract required — here's how it works.
U.S.-made parts for the print-defined lines.
Origin rules when your assembly flows up.
Our catalog as source of supply on DIBBS.
