I am looking for allen head stainless steel screws that will replace the phillips head screws on the clutch and break reservoir. Does anyone have a location to buy them? The OEM phillips head slots just strip out too easy. I found non stainless allen heads at Ace hardware but not stainless. They rust too easy. I found zinc coated phillips metric at Home Dee Pot but still would like to have allen head stainless.

A non-elegant solution would be to get the SAE stainless screws from Home Depot (allen head) in a size close to the metric thread pitch and run them through a metric die.

www.mcmaster.com

They have just about any fastener you need.

Hey Rob - does Gilbert, AZ have a Tractor Supply store?? If so, they are worth a rummaging trip down the fastener aisle. In lieu of that, I'd take Dave Shealey's recommendation and surf the McMaster-Carr on-line pages. Good luck.

Like David said McMaster has everything.

West Marine carries both metric and standard in stainless steel as well
http://www.westmarine.com

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Even though Gilbert is, or was a large farming community, now the fastest growing housing development in the US. Unfortunately no Tractor Supply store. Living in a metro area of about 4 mil people I suppose we have lots of suppliers for manufacturing and tool and die facilities but it is sometimes hard to locate in a phone book that is 3 inches thick. Dave and Tony have give me great resources and I will be checking them out. If I find a supplier I might be able to purchase a large quantity and pass the product on to those here that may be interested. I will keep all posted on locating and cost.

Try here: http://www.murphskits.com/

Great guy, great products.

1st! be careful using Stainless in aluminum! it corrodes terribly even more so if your close to salt air you think you have problems now? wait till a stainless screw corrodes into the aluminum housing.


but if you must Ace hardware has a nice assortment of hardware as well,


and just how tight are you tightening them? in over 200k miles between the RT and the LT I have never had one even begin to strip out, are you sure they are not getting over tightened?

Just sayin.......

Try Lowe's. I have found SS hardware in the specialty fastener drawers located on the hardware aisle.

It's not that I am over tightening the screws it is the idiots who have done the varias services on the clutch resoviour on the bike that have used the wrong size phillips screw driver and have started rounding the phillips slots out. BMW should have used an allen or torx head type screw.

yup they should have that way the idiots doing the services couldn't screw them up. <g>

yer welcome for the tip though

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