Anyone know of a good source of circlips?

A decent accessory shop should have a selection pack. Or try an engineer's supplier - Yellow Pages.

If you've no luck today, mail me with the size - I've got one of those selection boxes. ;-)

I'll have a poke arround a few places this after on the way home cheers. I could do with one of those selection boxes of circlips and copper washers myself.

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Found some locally cheers.

Local A1 store had a nice rack with all sorts.

Got a pack of mixed external Circlips, and mixed E clips. One will fit.

What's a "circlip" ?

Are you talking about a jubilee clip ? (threaded ring, that you can tighten with a screw, for joining pipes and hoses)

If so, then B&Q *do* sell them - and they have a huge selection. Infact, you should be able to get one from just about any hardware store.

Nope, like a washer with one open portion, and tags with a hole in to use with circlip pliers.

External circlips sit in a groove on a shaft to hold something such as a a non load bearing object in place, internal circlips sit in a groove in a bore to hold in things like seals and bearings. They are opened or closed by pressure, and just clip in and out.

It's a device rather like a springy washer with a slot cut in it, and some form of 'handles' either side of the slot. It fits in a matching groove in either a housing (internal type) or shaft (external type) to locate a bearing etc

No.

I'd call that a hose clamp.

Fraser

Think worm drive clip is more accurate - hose clips can be different types.

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Like spring loaded kind, and the wrap arround G Clip type, that just wind round a key type fastening like you find on a Sardine tin.

Circlip is totally different to a jubilee. As a rough illustration think of the little things they used to use to hold a window winder on to the window mechanism (that would be a manual window winder, so you may have to think back really far :)

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Yep, thems the babies.

Ended up grabbing a mixed pack each of E-Clips, External Circlips, and R pins.

Found an Eclip of roughly the right size (if I need to adjust or replace the wastegate actuator again) and then used an R Pin through the hole were the original anti tamper wire lock would have gone to make sure that should the E Clip be the wrong sie and come off the wastegate rod can't become detached.

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A Saab Mastertech told me that it should be an E-Clip, as that is what Saab use on them.

So an E-Clip is one, and it means I can remove it with a screwdriver instead of pair of Circlip pliers now.

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Mine are for external clips. I find them invaluable for winding back Saab front calipers when changing the pads, as I don't have the proper saab tool.

Ah righty.

Pug use them to hold on the piece of fabric trim, under the glovebox, on a Mk2 Pug 405 :)

Yep, thats the kind of thing. But in this case, holds the wastegate actuator rod onto the shaft on the wastegate flap on the turbo.

My winders are held on by tapered pins.

A circlip is an evil creation that requires pliers that never fit, and hawk like eyesight to find after they've popped out of said pliers and flown many yards through the air. They're especially good at this if you happen to be working outside, preferably near a flower bed or unmown lawn.