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    Cool Screw, No not that kind!

    O.K., I haven't posted much lately so I don't know if someone has found this or not! When disassembling the deck of carbs, some of the factory screws were installed by Godzilla just before he went on a date with Mothra. So, I went to the local chapter of ACE Hardware and found they stock stainless steel cap bolts. In metric sizes. Some have knurling around the head and some don't. With the SS polishing up, the air chamber covers on the top of the carbs looks really cool. On carbs 1 & 4 I put the chrome domes off the 80SG and the smooth sided allen cap screws. The inner domes have the knurled screws, also very shinney.
    Ole Jack
    J.D."Jack" Smith
    1980G&S "Halfbreed"
    1978E straight job
    "We the people are the rightful masters of both congress and the courts, not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the constitution." Abraham Lincoln

    Life is like a coin, you can choose to spend it any way you wish, but you can only spend it once. Make your choices wisely.
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    We won't believe you till we see a picture...
    Ken Talbot

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    • #3
      I got some of the stainless smooth allen head screws as a kit on ebay. They look great and are much easier to deal with than those lousy phillips heads screws. Very satisfied with them. Check 'em out here.
      Tim Ripley - Gaithersburg, MD
      1981 XS1100 Special "Spoiled Rotten" Just sold - currently bikeless!!
      23mm float height
      120 main jets
      42.5 pilot jets
      drilled stock airbox with K&N
      Jardine 4 to 1 Exhaust
      spade fusebox
      1st and 2nd gear fix

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      • #4
        Cool Srews

        OOOHHH, SHINY. I found the same thing at my local ACE. Also found some chrome plated screws. The button heads really look cool. As far as phillips head screws go, the guy who invented them should be put over a slow fire and have his chest hairs extracted with a pair of visegrips at one minute intervals.
        1979XS1100SF
        K&N's and drilled airbox
        Jardine 4in1
        Dunlop Elite 3's
        JBM slide diaphragms
        142.5 main jets
        45 pilot jets
        T.C.'s fusebox & SOFA
        750/850 FD mod.
        XV 920 Needle Mod.
        Mike's XS plastic floats set at 26mm
        Venture Cam Chain Tensioner

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        • #5
          Me too!

          I took out every single Phillips head fastener on my carbs and replaced them with Allen screws from Bolt Supply House.
          Best $5 I ever spent.
          And Tim,
          not the chest hairs, somewhat lower down. Crush, twist, yank. Repeat.
          OTOH, do it to Henry Ford as well. He's the guy who wouldn't make a deal to put Robertson screws in the Model T and thus popularised Phillips heads instead.
          Fred Hill, S'toon
          XS11SG with Spirit of America sidecar
          "The Flying Pumpkin"

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          • #6
            I buy alot of fasteners in my business so one day I went to Fastenal and purhcased a couple of sizes of SS allen cap screws and changed about everything out. They last alot longer and never corrode or rust. Also, you never realize how many fasteners you have showing on one of these machines. You can go through a bag of 100 in a flash but in the long run they are less expensive than changing out plated screws every few years.
            Mike Giroir
            79 XS-1100 Special

            Once you un-can a can of worms, the only way to re-can them is with a bigger can.

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            • #7
              There's also a guy that sells a kit of POLISHED stainless allen bolts/screws. They are kind of high at @ $40 inc shipping, but that was cheaper than me buying them individually from my hardware store... and they looked VERY good! They really bring out the wow on the sidecovers, but look best against the black of the valve cover.

              There's a lot of pieces in the kit... enough for all the sidecovers, but on hindsight, I would have put the regular ones back in the oil pan that no one sees, and keep the extras to touch up other things like the plastic cap that the engine vent tube attaches to.

              I also bought that stainless allen set for the carbs. After getting the others in, I was a bit disappointed. Even though they are stainless, they are pretty dull and dingy compared to the other set I got. It takes some work to get them shiny like the others.


              Tod
              Try your hardest to be the kind of person your dog thinks you are.

              You can live to be 100, as long as you give up everything that would make you want to live to be 100!

              Current bikes:
              '06 Suzuki DR650
              *'82 XJ1100 with the 1179 kit. "Mad Maxim"
              '82 XJ1100 Completely stock fixer-upper
              '82 XJ1100 Bagger fixer-upper
              '82 XJ1100 Motor/frame and lots of boxes of parts
              '82 XJ1100 Parts bike
              '81 XS1100 Special
              '81 YZ250
              '80 XS850 Special
              '80 XR100
              *Crashed/Totalled, still own

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              • #8
                McMaster.com

                Is the place for all kinds of bolts & nuts. Any kind you want. Also anything else you might want. Catalog is over 3500 pages of hardware.
                You can't stay young forever, but you can be immature for the rest of your life...

                '78E "Pathfinder" Show bike...
                Lovingly restored by Dave Delzell
                Drilled airbox
                Tkat fork brace
                Hardly mufflers
                late model carbs
                Newer style fuses
                Oil pressure guage
                Custom security system
                Stainless braid brake lines

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                • #9
                  Screws

                  I don't know Fred, The idea of intentionally looking at that part of a guy....... to each his own I guess. MSC is another place to get fasteners, they are pretty reasonable. W.W. Granger might be another.
                  1979XS1100SF
                  K&N's and drilled airbox
                  Jardine 4in1
                  Dunlop Elite 3's
                  JBM slide diaphragms
                  142.5 main jets
                  45 pilot jets
                  T.C.'s fusebox & SOFA
                  750/850 FD mod.
                  XV 920 Needle Mod.
                  Mike's XS plastic floats set at 26mm
                  Venture Cam Chain Tensioner

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                  • #10
                    pictures, my downfall

                    Mr. Talbot, Sir, I maybe a while on the pics as I am much better with a wrench or torch or a lathe than a computer. But I will try as I do have a digital camera. I have seen your pics and a lot of the other guys here and I am not sure I can do as good. Back in the 80's I lived in LA. Bought a rather expensive Olimpia 35 mm camera with all the goodies. Went on trip to San Francisco with wife and the pictures turned out quite badly. The next year we went to the wine country with our best bud and his wife. I gave him the camera and told him to do the photos on the trip. His turned out fabulous. Frameable. Gave him the camera, goodies with my blessing. Most people take pictures and I take guick snapshots.
                    Jack (click, Oh, shoot) Smith
                    J.D."Jack" Smith
                    1980G&S "Halfbreed"
                    1978E straight job
                    "We the people are the rightful masters of both congress and the courts, not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the constitution." Abraham Lincoln

                    Life is like a coin, you can choose to spend it any way you wish, but you can only spend it once. Make your choices wisely.

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                    • #11
                      Not to worry, Jack. As you'll notice as you browse around here, especially in the members lounge, we've got people here who can teach just about anybody to do just about anything. Stick around a while, and we'll turn you into a photographer, an IT guy, and anything else you want to do.
                      Ken Talbot

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