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    Automotive bolts where to buy?

    I have struggled to buy genuine automotive bolts. No nut and bolt retailers in NZ seem to stock them.
    I have seen various bikes renovated, and if you look closely some bolts are the cheesy looking machine bolts, that look terrible.
    Any help appreciated.

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    If you were in Wellington I would say go to W R Twigg in Petone. They have pretty good assortments of the flange headed bolts and nuts in metric and imperial, plus much much more. They do online as well. https://www.wrtwigg.com/
    it's not a bad thing till you throw a KLR into the mix.
    those cheap ass bitches can do anything with ductape.
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    Blacks Fasteners in Christchurch are normally pretty good. As are Anzor Fasteners.

    Not too helpful to a guy in Waikato though, I suppose.

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    I'm not going to recommend a supplier. But I am going to recommend learning the language.

    Generally on a bike, bolts ain't bolts. They may be machine screws, setscrews or rarely, bolts.

    If you can ask for exactly what you want it makes the suppliers job much easier.

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    No i idea what the OP is on about. I get my stuff from SteelMasters and they've always been fit for purpose.

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    Both MSL and Anzor are in Te Rapa, Hamilton. I mainly use stainless fastenings on my restorations these days. Put them in the lathe and turn the chintzy numbers and letters off the top and give them a polish. They look great and they stay that way. No more ugly corroded fastenings

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    Quote Originally Posted by swarfie View Post
    Both MSL and Anzor are in Te Rapa, Hamilton. I mainly use stainless fastenings on my restorations these days. Put them in the lathe and turn the chintzy numbers and letters off the top and give them a polish. They look great and they stay that way. No more ugly corroded fastenings
    Yeah, this is one area Ducati owners have an "advantage". Historically Ducati fasteners are so crappy that there is an industry supplying sets of stainless fasteners for the various models.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bonez View Post
    No i idea what the OP is on about. I get my stuff from SteelMasters and they've always been fit for purpose.
    If you want the bike to look like its been built by a blacksmith...
    it's not a bad thing till you throw a KLR into the mix.
    those cheap ass bitches can do anything with ductape.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pete376403 View Post
    If you want the bike to look like its been built by a blacksmith...
    Well I did use a club hammer on the ol gal the other day.

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    Steelmasters always had precisely the fasteners I needed for bikes I was doing up or repairing...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Trade_nancy View Post
    Steelmasters always had precisely the fasteners I needed for bikes I was doing up or repairing...
    yipsirybob.

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    Gas and Engineering Supplies have all (or can get) whatever you want ...
    When life throws you a curve ... Lean into it ...

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    I have used Auckland Engineering Supplies for a lot of odd non-metric bolts and fasteners in the past.

    Jeeps are a bit funny with using metric, non-metric and torx all on the same vehicle.

    They normally can source almost everything I have asked for.

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    Greg is spot on.
    There's not much you cant get from a fastening supplier if you know what it is you're after.

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