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Toby Erkson -- air_cooled_nut@pobox.com '72 VW Squareback, '95 VW Jetta, '81 Gold Wing, '73 Porsche 914 http://www.icbm.org/ Portland, Oregon
Jim Adney wrote:
On 13 May 2004 at 18:18, Toby Erkson wrote:
Black anodized, 4mm hex button heads with stainless steel washers underneath...looks good against my bright orange engine tin ;-)
I assume you mean 6mm. ;-)
Button heads look very nice, but they are the absolute pits as far as torquing goes...
They're really nice in places where they're really needed, but elsewhere they will just cause you headaches.
OTOH, switching to ordinary hex heads is an approach with no down side that I can see, other than the minimal cost of the hardware.
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