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/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl General Category >> Rubber Side Down! >> Drove 93 miles looking for a $.28 screw... /cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1181600198 Message started by jkhulon73 on 06/11/07 at 15:16:38 |
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Title: Drove 93 miles looking for a $.28 screw... Post by jkhulon73 on 06/11/07 at 15:16:38 Whilst cleaning the recently purchased Savage, I noticed the brake fluid was a tad low. One of the screws on the cap was fine, but the other was stripped out a bit. I could have tightened it one more time, but I never would have gotten it off again without a LOT of trouble and "magic" words. So I carefully removed the bad one and decided to make a quick trip to pick up a new screw. One Autozone, two Advance AutoParts, a Napa, two Suzuki dealerships, a Home Depot, two Lowe's, and three hours later, I finally found the right screw... Who would have thought that an M4-.70x12 Oval head Phillips machine screw was such a rare item in the metro Atlanta area... Jeeeez! I bought ten of them. I can't wait to start looking for tires. |
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Title: Re: Drove 93 miles looking for a $.28 screw... Post by steelwolf on 06/11/07 at 15:34:23 Well let me save you some time, Call ahead cause the dealer probably won't have them. I would suggest ordering them ahead of time. |
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Title: Re: Drove 93 miles looking for a $.28 screw... Post by justin_o_guy on 06/11/07 at 15:38:28 A couple more screw shopping trips & you gonna need to start hunting tires. It's better to have tires delivered by Big Brown. & looking for screws? Go to an industrial supply house. IF there is one. Grab the yellow pages & look under bolts & screws or in some places, threaded fasteners. |
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Title: Re: Drove 93 miles looking for a $.28 screw... Post by hutch on 06/11/07 at 15:52:05 justin_o_guy wrote:
Justin nailed that one. JP Cycles has the tire for a good price to your door. We have a place here called Industrial Bolt and Screw, got everything but those British Witworth threaded items. |
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Title: Re: Drove 93 miles looking for a $.28 screw... Post by Digger on 06/11/07 at 21:18:46 If your front brake master cylinder cap screws are stock, you will notice a small dot embossed in the head of the screw. This is a danger signal that you stand a good chance of stripping the screw head if you use a standard Phillips screwdriver. Here is the correct tool: http://www.amessupply.com/products1.cfm?aid=1&cid=D&sid=DE&fid=1404070 IHTH! |
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Title: Re: Drove 93 miles looking for a $.28 screw... Post by Oldfeller2 on 06/12/07 at 03:45:26 If I can't find it at work I won't find it at any retail outlet -- metric fasteners other than standard nuts & bolts are NOT easily available at hardware stores or the big home stores. Easier just to go here and place an order -- these guys have it in stainless which does much better on the outside of a bike. http://www.boltdepot.com/product.aspx?cc=25&cs=83&cm=19&cd=1317 Oldfeller |
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Title: Re: Drove 93 miles looking for a $.28 screw... Post by Greg_650 on 06/12/07 at 05:38:48 jkhulon73 wrote:
As they say... "The ride is the reason, the destination is the excuse". :P Besides, dealerships do not ever stock parts anymore. A couple decades ago, dealers had nuts and bolts. I spent lots of time digging through boxes of bolts just like that. Now a days? Nada. If it doesn't have a bar code, they don't have it. |
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Title: Re: Drove 93 miles looking for a $.28 screw... Post by jkhulon73 on 06/12/07 at 05:42:26 The ones I wound up buying I found in a specialty bin at Lowe's- stainles steel, good to go. That dimpled, pot-metal stock garbage went right where it belongs... ...in a plastic cap from a spray paint can on the back of my work bench with all the other nuts and bolts and screws I've replaced over the years... I can't ever throw any thing out. Incidentally, I was able to fix the brake light switch on the front brake that I didn't even realize wasn't working. It's not like I can really (legally) go anywhere on it right now anyway. |
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Title: Re: Drove 93 miles looking for a $.28 screw... Post by jkhulon73 on 06/12/07 at 05:48:46 Greg_650 wrote:
I can't believe how young these kids are working behind the counter and I'm only 34. I spent most of my summers in high school working with my best friend at his family's parts store doing inventory. Counting box after box of bolts and washers and screws and all kinds of little doo-dads. You're absolutely right about nowadays... The kid at the dealership wanted to order the whole master cylinder assembly. All I needed was a $.28 screw (which my best friend's dad and all of his employees would have just given away) |
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Title: Re: Drove 93 miles looking for a $.28 screw... Post by Rogue_Cheddar on 06/12/07 at 06:07:50 93 miles eh? Methinks that mayhaps you weren't looking hard enough. ::) Nice ride though. :D |
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Title: Re: Drove 93 miles looking for a $.28 screw... Post by justin_o_guy on 06/12/07 at 06:40:59 Also, since you were a "Tad low" maybe your brakes are a "Tad Used". When the pads get replaced, the fluid will be displaced back into the mastercylinder reservoir. Remove some to make room. Maybe it will be time to drain & replace by then. |
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Title: Re: Drove 93 miles looking for a $.28 screw... Post by jkhulon73 on 06/12/07 at 07:15:10 Rogue_Cheddar wrote:
93 miles in the pick-up- the bike (and me) ain't licensed yet. That whole salvage title thing is a pain. I live in the sticks more or less- it's ten miles one way to the nearest parts store. And if they ain't got what I need, it's another eight miles further up the road. The dealership is about 30. And then I came home the back way to avoid the five o'clock traffic. And the fluid was only about a 1/16" low- I'm a bit of a perfectionist. |
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Title: Re: Drove 93 miles looking for a $.28 screw... Post by justin_o_guy on 06/12/07 at 07:21:04 But, It's okay for it to be low. Its sposed to be low. Well,, below the FULL line, not lower than the low line. As brakes wear, fluid takes the place of the piston as it moves out. |
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Title: Re: Drove 93 miles looking for a $.28 screw... Post by Greg_650 on 06/12/07 at 07:33:45 jkhulon73 wrote:
Methinks that livin' in the "sticks" is a good place to be though ;D |
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Title: Re: Drove 93 miles looking for a $.28 screw... Post by jkhulon73 on 06/12/07 at 07:55:06 Greg_650 wrote:
I like the sticks, or as we called it back in Texas- "B.F.E." (I'm sure someone knows what that means) I work in downtown 'lanta and I like the feeling of decompression when I get home. I just would like to add that I've been turning wrenches since I was a wee lad. This may be my first bike, but I'm not a complete doofus. Maybe a quarter... (My girl will say at least 2/3 if you ask her ;D ) |
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Title: Re: Drove 93 miles looking for a $.28 screw... Post by Greg_650 on 06/12/07 at 15:21:25 BFE ??? Hmmmm....Before.... (I'm not from Texas) |
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Title: Re: Drove 93 miles looking for a $.28 screw... Post by tuxedo on 06/12/07 at 16:00:29 Bum crappity smacked Egypt. Bumcrappity smack Egypt. Blasted crappity smacking Earth. Beyond crappity smacking Everest. Mainly the first two. |
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Title: Re: Drove 93 miles looking for a $.28 screw... Post by forrest on 06/12/07 at 16:01:13 BFE = Bum F$%# Egypt. Lived in Houston for a couple of years and married a Houstonian. |
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Title: Re: Drove 93 miles looking for a $.28 screw... Post by Savage_Rob on 06/13/07 at 06:07:38 LOL, I always figured everyone had heard of BFE. Being from Texas, I never thought it might be a Texas thing. Interesting... |
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