OzVMX Forum
Clubroom => Tech Talk => Topic started by: mainline on March 27, 2008, 09:08:44 pm
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Any of you guys used Classic Fasteners or others like them or does everyone replate their old bolts?
Just wondering cause their prices for dirtbike kits seem pretty reasonable when you compare to the cost of replating (if you're not doing it yourself)
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Mainline, here's the deal with me..if I'm being anal and the bolt is like a special S suzuki bolt I'll replate it. If it's a phillips head engine case screw or normal 6 or 8mm plain or flanged I'll buy new, nut's and washers I buy new and these days even spokes I'd rather buy new. I was plating but the time involved and the ritual you need to follow for good results has me heading off the the local bolt shop pronto. Surprising how cheap it is to replace most of the nuts and bolts on a bike if you go to a fastener supplier..good chance he'll have most of what you want for under $20..compare that to weeks worth of cleaning and plating and cursing and replating even then they are shiney but still don't have that new look. Depends on the bike and fasteners needed I guess but for normal garden variety stuff it's so much easier just to pay the man or use something out of the bucket of bolts one collects over time. Even plating places are a bother sometimes, parts lost in plating tanks does happen :o having a kit at home if you need it is great and I'd recommend it but buying new if available is just so much easier ;D buying new bolts is like buying new plugs..they're consumables..try making a sparkplug at home in the garage for under $3.95 :D
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Stainless have a tendency to bind up if you don't use anti seize compound . I use my kit on small items - or items that need to be done ASAP.
This lot cost me $80- to be plated :) cheap I recon
Engine case srews I replace with 6mm small head a packet of 25 cost $9-00 lengths 15mm - 60 mm
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thats seems pricy. i can get up to about 5kgs zinc plated for about $60 in Adelaide.
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What I'm getting ripped off :o nah I left it too late and need them for CD5 , and wanted them done as it was holding up progress . This batch would take a whole day and I Figured $80 was OK -and I had them the next day ;D
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This batch would take a whole day and I Figured $80 was OK -and I had them the next day
Bloody Garage Queens ;)
From fifty paces or covered in mud no one can tell if the screws are NOS or chrome in a can
oooh Cole creek is on this weekend ;D
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i use classic fasteners quite often. its one of the only places you can buy specialist fasteners for british bikes. eg BSF, BSCY