Jay-Cee Sales and Rivet Inc

Specialties

Today, Jay-​Cee Sales & Rivet Inc. is considered one of the nation’s largest in-​stock supplier of rivets and special fasteners. The company backs up that claim with 35,000 square feet of space containing over eight million pounds of inventory! That inventory includes everything from blind rivets, drive rivets, solid rivets, and rivet nuts, to brake lining rivets, tinner rivets, semi-​tubular rivets, large steel rivets (½″ and above), split rivets, and SAE clevis pine, plus riveting tools. We also sell a line of threadlockers, thread sealants and other adhesives.

History

Established in 1948.

Jay-​Cee Sales was started in 1948 by Jack Clinton in Detroit, Michigan on Grand River. The store began as an Army/​Navy supply store as well as other basic goods. Soon after the business opened, Jack was joined by his son Louis Clinton. Jack had a brother-​in-​law who was in the scrap/​surplus business in Texas. He came across a surplus of various goods and fasteners, which included rivets and shipped them up to Jack. As soon as he received the shipment, he was able to sell them in no time. As business increased, Jack and Louis needed to move to a larger location with a warehouse to store their increasing inventory. In the mid 1950’s the company move to Ferry Park in Detroit. In the coming years business continued to grow. In 1969 Louis’s son-​in-​law, Cary Weitzman joined the company. Shortly thereafter, Louis’s son Michael Clinton joined the company in 1972. In 1973 Jay-​Cee Sales decided to divest all of their threaded products and concentrate on rivets.