A retaining ring holds a moving part on its shaft or inside its bore with a spring of flat steel seated in a machined groove, and this shelf of 136 lines runs all the way from the bench assortment boxes to industrial single sizes larger than most shafts a workshop will ever meet in a career.
The assortments stock the bench first: internal and external circlip boxes in 200 and 285 piece metric spreads, the twin E-clip cases at 800 pieces each in metric and imperial forms, and the 120 piece roll pin box, together covering the sprung retaining spread before any job has named its size. The single-size lines carry the D471 external retaining clips upward through the tens of millimetres to 240, 280, 300 and 340 millimetre diameters in trade packs of a hundred, the heavy rings of gearbox, pump and industrial plant work that the bench boxes never reach.
The fir tree clips serve the whole vehicle side of the shelf, panel and trim fasteners in packs of twenty patterned to their makes, universal forms sitting beside the Citroen, Ford, GM, Peugeot, Honda, Suzuki and BMW patterned lines, each one sized by its stem and hole so panels and trim go back onto the same clips they came off.
The groove or shaft diameter picks a circlip, internal or external by where the groove lives, and the measured size typed into search finds the ring at once. A groove measured with callipers, or a clip photographed flat against a rule over WhatsApp on 07754288583, comes back with the ring named across whichever family it belongs to and the pliers question answered from the tool ranges.
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