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Make your old nuts like new!
Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2013 4:56 pm
by Copper
Hi,
Had my bike in bits last week and was going to replace the standard rusty bolts with stainless, however, as stainless torx fasteners weren't available locally and I was in a hurry I bought a spray paint called ZG90. I soaked the old bolts in Phosphoric acid (Wonder Wheels is the same stuff) which removed the rust (and any remaining (zinc?) plating). Then I stuck them upright by pushing them into a cardboard box, gave them a good spray the balanced them on end and finished off spraying them.
All the bolts look like new now!
Jon
Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2013 6:49 pm
by tanneman
Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2013 8:25 pm
by Copper
Sorry way to busy for the convoluted method of uploading pictures to this site you'll just have to take my word for it and use your imagination.
Jon
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 4:02 am
by Blackal
Didn't someone else on here - post a photo his nuts poking through a sheet of cardboard?
Might have been Dai or Nick.............
Al
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 9:13 am
by McBoxer
Blackal wrote:Didn't someone else on here - post a photo his nuts poking through a sheet of cardboard?
Might have been Dai or Nick.............
Al
I posted something similar a while back. Not on here, but on one of those 'specialist' websites. I'm surprised you saw it...........
Took me ages to get the bloody paint off, mind
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 9:44 am
by conkerman
Not interested unless there is marmite and a spaniel involved!
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 1:27 pm
by Dai wiskers
Blackal wrote:Didn't someone else on here - post a photo his nuts poking through a sheet of cardboard?
Might have been Dai or Nick.............
Al
Don't think it was me' but it's a cracking way to keep your casing screws in order when doing a rebuild
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 11:23 pm
by South_Oz
I repainted an RZ Yamaha recently and used the same method. (with pics)
Dave
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 7:38 am
by Nookiebear
conkerman wrote:Not interested unless there is marmite and a spaniel involved!
I tried the marmite and staffie option, but found crunchy peanut butter worked better and the wife preferred the taste as well.
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 4:21 pm
by Copper
Hi,
Yes thats pretty much what mine looked like, thanks.
And I thought I'd invented the cardboard box method!
The guts at Motorworx have said stainless on the calipers is a BAD idea so will be using the same method to restore the bolts on those when I get around to it.
Jon
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 8:35 pm
by Gromit
Copper wrote:
The guts at Motorworx have said stainless on the calipers is a BAD idea so will be using the same method to restore the bolts on those when I get around to it.
Jon
Interesting, considering they sell (or did sell as I bought one) a kit which contains stainless caliper bolts.
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 8:59 pm
by Copper
Hi,
That should read the Guys not Guts!
He said that the calipers with m8 bolts are too thin but m10 are ok.
Jon
Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2013 9:27 am
by Hayden
South_Oz wrote:I repainted an RZ Yamaha recently and used the same method. (with pics)
Dave
These look good, but how come the paint isn`t damaged when you tighten everything back up?....
Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2013 1:02 pm
by Daveg2812
Hayden wrote: These look good, but how come the paint isn`t damaged when you tighten everything back up?....
Exactly my thoughts as I was reading this.
Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2013 10:10 pm
by boxerscott
I was wondering about that too
