Found a bolt

**Old Steve** · 8th October 2013, 15:29

I was going to say, throw it away in the rubbish bin. Then, the day after the garbos have been around and the bolt is gone forever, you'll find where it came from!

I write down the dimensions and grade of any bolts/nuts I find so I can get another one, then throw the botl or nut away. Trouble is, I keep losing the piece of paper I wrote the details down on.

**jellywrestler** · 8th October 2013, 16:11

Originally Posted by Old Steve

I write down the dimensions and grade of any bolts/nuts I find so I can get another one, then throw the botl or nut away. Trouble is, I keep losing the piece of paper I wrote the details down on.

an old bolt makes a great paperweight so you dont lose the peice of paper you've written the bolt size on

**Old Steve** · 8th October 2013, 17:37

Originally Posted by jellywrestler

an old bolt makes a great paperweight so you dont lose the peice of paper you've written the bolt size on

Ah, yes it does. But you never find out where the bolt is missing from until it's actually gone. I find that the process of writing down the bolt's details sometimes interferes with this process and I never find the missing bolt's location.

I did have a fallback selection of missing bolt standards - M6, M8 and M10 in lengths each 10 mm longer than the next. That way I could insert a bolt and say, I need an M6 5 mm shorter than 30 mm. There's usually more than one bolt that is the same, so I could redefine my bolt requirements along the lines of, an M6, 25 mm stainless steel socket head cap screw.

**neels** · 8th October 2013, 18:23

Good work finding a home for it.

I hate bits left over, or worse finding bolt holes that used to have bolts in them. Never found the centrestand bolt that was missing from my bike, but the guy doing the last service on it did find the sunglasses I'd been looking for in the fairing