Zine or glavanized nuts\bolt washer

Try and find a local fastener stockist and ask them for good quality cadmium plated nuts washers and bolts. I fitted some to an exhaust some years ago and they were perfectly serviceable when the exhaust was mostly rust. I undid them as if they were brand new.

Dave

Or boat chandlers and get stainless steel nuts bolts.

Big plastic zip ties ?

Ok, thanks for this info, very useful. Will have a try at finding a fastner stockist over the weekend.

I use a bit of copper grease on things that I need to service (car wise) relatively requently and usually does the job when it comes to undoing them time. But If I use cadmium it could save me time putting that on them. Planning on doing my full exhaust soon so I'll definitely get that for them as well!

Thanks

"Colin Wilson" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@news.individual.net...

Nice idea that is, I gave it some thought but the part I am nutting/bolting has to be fairly stiff and the bolts would help it be, I think I might get a little too much movement using zip ties.

But you've given me an idea for something else I could use the ties for on the car!

I used a steel banding tool and something called valstrap / Band-It to keep my exhaust on my first car - it's probably all that's left of the whole car now !

This rather nice little company will sell you stainless ones - and you'll get their cat too with the order. Which will keep any car nut happy for many an hour.

Cadmium plated fasteners were primarily intended for use with aluminium and magnesium. However, cadmium is a hazardous substance and it has largely been replaced by aluminium coated screws for those applications. Stainless steel screws would probably be much easier to find. A4 stainless steel fasteners are more corrosion resistant than A2.

Colin Bignell

They cover quite a wide range, micro screws to woodscrews, and UNF/UNC for unusual PC applications, thumbscrews etc.

Providing you can get past their stupid, pointless, broken, Flash intro.

I suppose they can't have lost me as a customer, since I was never one to start with, but they'll certainly never be gaining me as one.

Yes support you local specialist suppliers when ever possible, one day you might need them, BTW don't hope for much help from B&Q on the phone, they just made 80+ redundant in their UK call centre....

Indeed - just an inconvenience as they often delay menu activation. It works ok on MS-IE7 so probably IS broken on anything else. IT - just because you can, does not mean you should :-)

The products are ok - handy when you want a mix of sizes and do not want to buy boxes of the stuff. Most fastener suppliers will order in the small or unusual, but subject to minimum quantity as a rule.