I popped into my local branch of West Marine. They have lots and lots of stainless hardware. But the bolts that hold the front of the luggage rack are metric. 6mmx1. Now, finding stainless hardware is a bit of a challenge. Add truss head style heads (or even oval heads and SS finishing washers to the mix as Lucas kindly suggested in p-mail) and you're looking at specialty items. Then add metric to the mix and my goodness availability drops quickly. Go Westy it is, I reckon, having struck out at the local drive-by suppliers. -- Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus 83.5 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana") KG6RCR
On 5/17/2005 9:36 PM Rocket J Squirrel wrote: > I pulled Mellow Yellow's luggage rack to see what kind of crud had > accumulated under it. Not too bad, dried leaves and other vegetable > matter, dirt. I reckon I will put some hoses under the drain holes and > route them to the rain gutters. Those four truss head bolts have been > leaving rust streaks down the sides of the rack. I'd like to replace > them with stainless hardware. They have pointy noses, though . . . not a > standard bolt at all. Does anyone have any idea where something like > this can be found? > > -- > > Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott > 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus > 83.5 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana") > KG6RCR > |
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