Stainless Head/barrel nuts and bolts

will it be ready for the norton ride day on 25th Sept!!!
Tim

Hey Tim. You never know your luck! By then I will probably be doing shake down runs but who knows.
By the way where were you on the weekend? Didn't see you at Quindanning.

my bike had SS headbolts when it got it and I had recurring head gasket problems untill I replaced them with standard parts, I think the bolts were quite soft , dont know the grade or the supplier but SS is available in many grades, go with parts of known quality and you will be ok,SS can look good when polished but no-one will see it as you ride past at full throttle.

850 Sam said:

my bike had SS headbolts when it got it and I had recurring head gasket problems untill I replaced them with standard parts, I think the bolts were quite soft , dont know the grade or the supplier but SS is available in many grades, go with parts of known quality and you will be ok,SS can look good when polished but no-one will see it as you ride past at full throttle.

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I agree with that. Mark, you are making the smart decision by have your OEM hardware finished. A wise move for anyone thinking of stainless for specified torque situation. Otherwise you might as well throw torque specs right out the window and if you had your wrench calibrated, you wasted your money.

"Damn, them thar sure are perdy bolts ya got thar. Now help strap er down and I'll being ya into town to use the tellyphone. Taint no wireless round these parts. Watchyer step round that puddle ya left"

Mark,

Are you using Anthony from Aeroplate ( Welshpool ) ?, he does an awesome job.

This is what he did for me:

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Mark,

Are you using Anthony from Aeroplate ( Welshpool ) ?, he does an awesome job.

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Yes Josh. Murray at cyclecraft put me on to him.
Did you send those parts over from Queensland?
I've thrown in a few other bits and pieces to make the job worthwhile. Coil brackets, head steady plates etc

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I agree with that. Mark, you are making the smart decision by have your OEM hardware finished. A wise move for anyone thinking of stainless for specified torque situation. Otherwise you might as well throw torque specs right out the window and if you had your wrench calibrated, you wasted your money.

"Damn, them thar sure are perdy bolts ya got thar. Now help strap er down and I'll being ya into town to use the tellyphone. Taint no wireless round these parts. Watchyer step round that puddle ya left"

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As they say pvisseriii 'chrome(or stainless :lol: )wont get you home'. All that shiny stuff aint worth shite when your stuck on the side of the road. :lol:

Mark F said:

Hey Tim. You never know your luck! By then I will probably be doing shake down runs but who knows.
By the way where were you on the weekend? Didn't see you at Quindanning.

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Hope to see it! Was in Sydney and Snowy Mountains for a ski with family, arrived home at 9.00pm when i was mean't too be in Quindanning pub. Anthony at Aeroplate does good work and have a chat with him as he does other things as well like bead blast your head and paint tanks.

I should have weighed in earlier, but business is, currently, booming...

Stainless Steel defines a very broad specturm of material composition that spans the range of pot metal to aero-space grades. Stainless tends to sieze rather than strip, but whether you have a siezed stainless fastening system or a stripped one in a carbon steel you still have a ruined fastening system. RPC has been selling stainless fastening systems for over 29 years with ZERO returns for failure; I am amazed at how quickly a stainless steel discussion looks like an oil/Tri-spark/tire discussion, but respect the passion with which Norton devotees care for their rides.

I'ts great to have freedom of choice; RPC has plenty of stainless steel fasteners in grades up to A4-80 for those that choose them, but fully understands and respects those that choose traditional carbon steel fastening systems. I take my hat off to those individuals that painstakingly dress and re-cad plate their OE fasteners that, probably, won't rust in their life time.

Bill.

May be good idea to get the Whitworth die/tap set to chase the Cadmium plating off threads and dress up the SS items to.

Grade article on fasteners with SS the least of the scope.
http://www.precisionenginetech.com/tech ... es-part-2/