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finding metric fasteners
Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2004 10:14 pm
by takes2serious
Where do you folks buy your metric nuts and bolts? My local home
improvement store carries a small selection of the M5-M12 stuff,
though not in the higher quality, and certainly not in stainless
steel. My dealer wants an arm and a leg for the stock parts, and it
gets old waiting a couple of weeks for my favorite online dealer, who
happens to be on the opposite coast, doesn't stock them, and only
orders from Kawasaki about once per week.
I've seen the kits offered by Jake and others, which I think are
great, but what do you do when you just need one or two specific
fasteners, like an M24 nut, or you bend one footpeg circlip?
finding metric fasteners
Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2004 10:19 pm
by bigfatgreenbike
rshultz@... wrote:
>Where do you folks buy your metric nuts and bolts?
>
metricspecialties.com
They have a $25 minimum order, and a $2.00 minimum on any one item
(meaning you might buy 12 part threaded M6x1.25x30mm socket head cap
screws but buy 150 m6 washers). Over the lasst few years I've put
together a pretty good assortment.
They have a sh*tload of stainless stuff.
--
Devon
Brooklyn, NY
A15-Z '01 KLR650
'81 SR500 cafe racer
"The truth's not too popular these days....."
Arnold Schwarzenneger, in The Running Man
finding metric fasteners
Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2004 10:29 pm
by Stan
I use these guys for various things. Prices are not the best, but the
selection overall is quite large.
http://www.mscdirect.com/
-S
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finding metric fasteners
Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2004 10:37 pm
by matteeanne@yahoo.com
Full sets of stainless specifically for the KLR,
including a map as to what bolt goes where can be had
on Ebay for a very reasonable rate. However, I would
strongly urge you to kepp it stock, and keep em tight,
at very least until they start to show signs of wear.
Given your thumpers vibration, if you swap them all
out, and undertighten the wrong bolt, it can cost you
dearly, and maybe even your life, it aint worth it
IMHO
--- takes2serious wrote:
> Where do you folks buy your metric nuts and bolts?
> My local home
> improvement store carries a small selection of the
> M5-M12 stuff,
> though not in the higher quality, and certainly not
> in stainless
> steel. My dealer wants an arm and a leg for the
> stock parts, and it
> gets old waiting a couple of weeks for my favorite
> online dealer, who
> happens to be on the opposite coast, doesn't stock
> them, and only
> orders from Kawasaki about once per week.
>
> I've seen the kits offered by Jake and others, which
> I think are
> great, but what do you do when you just need one or
> two specific
> fasteners, like an M24 nut, or you bend one footpeg
> circlip?
>
>
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53 "jackass" mpg hwy
Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2004 12:50 pm
by Kent
Went for a highway rip this weekend 2 up on my KLR with my Jackass
pipe (BGRS) Dynojet kit and K&N filter. 9.9L to 223 KM. Works out
to 53 miles to the U.S. gallon.
Kent J
Kelowna BC
Canada
finding metric fasteners
Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2004 12:55 pm
by Eric L. Green
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, takes2serious wrote:
> Where do you folks buy your metric nuts and bolts?
The local hardware store.
> My local home
> improvement store carries a small selection of the M5-M12 stuff,
A home improvement store is not a hardware store. Hardware stores have bin
after bin of hardware (nuts, bolts, pins, etc.). Home improvement stores
have, well, home improvement stuff, of which only a small amount is
hardware.
-E