Hi all, does anyone know where I can get my hands on stainless steel nuts and spacers for the front and rear wheels ( preferably not too expensive ) I am sick to death of watching things rust in front of my eyes   - anyway thanks for looking

If you are talking about the axle nuts and spacers....that could be a problem.

The only thing on the front axle are spacers, and they are not going to be available from any hardware store supplier.  The front axle spacers have shields on both of them to help protect the wheel bearing seals, and one spacer has a widened area to distribute the clamping load onto the fork leg.

The rear axle has a nut with a nylon locking insert - you might be able to find that in stainless and it will likely be about $ 12 - $ 20 for a stainless locking nut that big.  The spacers are not going to be available from a hardware store.

Somebody with a lathe could build you some stainless spacers - but that would be pretty expensive.

You could have your spacers powder coated, or re-plated for a reasonable cost......or a can of silver spray paint would likely hold up pretty well if you want to do it really cheaply.

For some reason the Savage seems to corrode easily.  When I was looking for my first used Savage, I looked at several and I was surprised to see so much corrosion on bikes with very few miles on them.  Even bikes that were parked in a garage near the overhead door would corrode from the moisture they got when the overhead doors would open and close.  The aluminum often had the corrosion under the clear coat, the inside of the tool box cover and painted side covers was rusty, the spoke nipples were rusty, and even the plating on the spokes was dull and grey colored on most of them.

I looked at a lot of $ 2,000 bikes that had corrosion and rust, and I finally decided that I would spend a bit more and get a clean bike....I found a really nice one for $ 2,700. It extra cost was worth it to me, as appearance is something I worry about on my Savage.

Thanks for the help guys - a friend of mine has got a lathe he said we could have - mind you its in his basement   so moving it is a bit of problem - but thats what we're all about   so I suppose it looks like making the spacers myself is the solution.