Date:         Wed, 18 May 2005 16:54:11 -0500
Reply-To:     Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
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From:         Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
Subject:      Re: It's never that easy (WAS: SS version of luggage rack bolts?)
Comments: To: Rocket J Squirrel <j.michael.elliott@ADELPHIA.NET>
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Last weekend I got around to replacing my point iron luggage rack bolts
with gowesty non-pointy SS replacements. No issue, no problems. Don't
need the point.

Jim


On May 18, 2005, at 4:12 PM, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:

> 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
>>
>