| Author | Message | ||
     Avc8130 |
Does anyone know of a commercially available alternative for the plastic washers used on the body work? It seems every time I take a panel off I lose at least one on my driveway/garage floor. I would like to buy a bag of 100 or something. ac | ||
| Stirz007 |
American Sport bike has them for about $0.20 per as I recall. If you had a bag of a hundred, you'd never need any more - just sweep the garage whenever you need one... | ||
| Avc8130 |
$.20 might be a "good" price from Buell, but I know I have seen plastic washers about $5/100. I guess I need to break out the calipers and measure if no one else has. ac | ||
| Stirz007 |
Avc - Don't get me wrong, I hear ya... I've been poking around for a lower cost alternative, but really didn't want to spend a whole lot of time to save an insignificant amount of money ... suffice it to say that saving a few pennies costs me more in time and effort than the savings - I need to get over to Fastenal and see what they have when I get a chance. I went ahead and bought 10 for two bucks from American Sport Bike, as I figure that will last me a couple of years. $5 per hundred is a better deal for sure, but that assumes you actually need 100. | ||
| Froggy |
Zac4mac was giving them out for free a while back, he got a bag of 20,000 of them. | ||
| Avc8130 |
I figure I live near and ride with about 10 Buell owners. We could easily split a pack of 100 between a few of us and for $2 each have lifetime supplies. ac | ||
| Whynot |
I went to the local Ace and zoned out in the pull-out drawer department, heaven ... anyway, got some black plastic washers that are a nice fit and are made of a little more rigid material than the clear mush originals. | ||
| Stirz007 |
Actually - black washers on red or white body work might look better than the clear-ish stockers - Hmmm. (Mine's black so it doesn't matter, but it gets me a thinkin') | ||
| Dannybuell |
My Ace pull-out drawer had the semi-clear just a bit thicker with a narrower AN type size, even better you can't see them! | ||
| Puzzled |
I picked mine up from McMaster Carr. http://www.mcmaster.com/# http://www.mcmaster.com/#washers/=7xogwj | ||
| Avc8130 |
Do you remember what part you ordered specifically? ac | ||
| Nattyx1 |
So here's a fun way to completely kill a half hour: click on all the washer links in the mcMaster catalog. But you gotta click quickly, or it'll turn into an hour. :-) They have like 40 different kinds of plastic washers. And in that I'm no chemist, I'm having a bit of trouble deciding which ones are right for us. Phenolic? Nylon 6-6? Poloycarbonate? Rulon? Delrin? | ||
| Zac4mac |
Natty - the OEM are nylon | ||
| Craiga |
But do you get off white or black???? | ||
| Court |
I just sent an e-mail to American Sport Bike and told them to send me an assortment of Buell nylon washers and bill me. It cost about nothing and I think they ended up tossing them in with something else. I like to keep a tray of spare fasteners, washers and so forth. I've got to order a couple more. | ||
| Avc8130 |
That would work out nicely if shipping wasn't so expensive...or I needed something else too. Right now I just want a baggie I can keep in stock for those "aw crap" instances. ac | ||
| Avc8130 |
Oh yeah, they are now $.30 from American Sport Bike...with the $20 minimum order I would have to buy 67 of them. LOL ac |
