OK, I may have this posted in the wrong location, so please feel free to move it if it doesn't belong.
Long story short(I promise).
I baught a wrecked 2000 Yamaha Venture snowmobile from a guy, wrecked, and parted it out and sold the stuff on ebay a while back. One thing I had tons of poeple ask me for(that I wouldn't sell) were all the fasteners. I wanted to keep them all, as I work on a lot of Jap stuff and those metric bolts & nuts are kinda expensive and come in handy when you have a large stash of different sizes & shapes...
The reson I am writing this thread is not only because you can go online & buy bolts from poeple who have parted out metric stuff. Sure, most know that. But, the snowmobile I parted, every nut and bolt had a BLACK rust-proof coating on them(not sure if they are anodized or black chrome or black zinc...). These are GREAT! I have used them for tons of projects, and because they were from a snowmobile, they are not all greasy and dirty with mud & baked on grease.
BEST OF ALL, THEY ARE FACTORY YAMAHA PARTS! So you don't have to worry about being carefull with torque, like some inferior bolts.
I used to get my metric stuff from McMaster Carr, and they're stuff was great. But got expensive after awile and never seamed to have the "right" size.
So I guess what I am suggesting is to go out & getting a box of leftover fastenerss from someone who parted out a yamaha snowmobile, if you need extras. I know next time my bolt-stash starts running low, that's what I'll be doing.
I have attached a few pics. One of an example of the coating on the bar adaptor bolts, and the rest of the mildly damaged snowmobile I parted.
I actually paid less for this sled than some guys on ebay are selling lftover fasteners for($50)....
I will grab a few pics of more leftover bolts I have tonight to show more of the coating.
Any thaughts?
Long story short(I promise).
I baught a wrecked 2000 Yamaha Venture snowmobile from a guy, wrecked, and parted it out and sold the stuff on ebay a while back. One thing I had tons of poeple ask me for(that I wouldn't sell) were all the fasteners. I wanted to keep them all, as I work on a lot of Jap stuff and those metric bolts & nuts are kinda expensive and come in handy when you have a large stash of different sizes & shapes...
The reson I am writing this thread is not only because you can go online & buy bolts from poeple who have parted out metric stuff. Sure, most know that. But, the snowmobile I parted, every nut and bolt had a BLACK rust-proof coating on them(not sure if they are anodized or black chrome or black zinc...). These are GREAT! I have used them for tons of projects, and because they were from a snowmobile, they are not all greasy and dirty with mud & baked on grease.
BEST OF ALL, THEY ARE FACTORY YAMAHA PARTS! So you don't have to worry about being carefull with torque, like some inferior bolts.
I used to get my metric stuff from McMaster Carr, and they're stuff was great. But got expensive after awile and never seamed to have the "right" size.
So I guess what I am suggesting is to go out & getting a box of leftover fastenerss from someone who parted out a yamaha snowmobile, if you need extras. I know next time my bolt-stash starts running low, that's what I'll be doing.
I have attached a few pics. One of an example of the coating on the bar adaptor bolts, and the rest of the mildly damaged snowmobile I parted.
I actually paid less for this sled than some guys on ebay are selling lftover fasteners for($50)....
I will grab a few pics of more leftover bolts I have tonight to show more of the coating.
Any thaughts?
