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Well, not knowing what year and serial # that is I gave you the benefit. Anyway it has always seemed more appropiate where you have it. Mine will be there as well. LOL
 
# 17,570 its wrong, hehehe

At least I will be in good company /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
For those hard to find hardware items and other arcane bits, I've always found them at McMaster. Their web site is extremely easy to use and find what you're looking for. It literally walks you through the process. Just start with something generic like "hex bolt" or "clevis pin". I'm sure they carry plasti-gage also. No auto thermostats though. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/hammer.gif

Also, most of their stuff gets shipped out of New Jersey, so you would get it in a day.

BTW, for you Triumph guys out there, McMaster carries those caged weld nuts that are prevalent on the body panels. Yes, in 1/4-28 among a lot of other sizes. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

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the only thing I seem to be having trouble finding lately is a stupid nyloc nut for my manual choke converted ZS carb. I have a normal nut that threads onto the shaft just fine. But everytime I take it in to a store to find the same size nut I always end up with a nut that does not fit. The first place I went to the nut threaded fully onto some metric size, so I got that size but the new nut wouldn't thread onto the carb (surprise). The second attempt the nut threaded completely and effortlessly onto a 1/4 - 20 size, so I got that size nuts and THOSE won't fit either.
 
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I am restoring a car in NYC and am having a lot of delays finding things that I would think should be quite simple.

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Perhaps you need to move to a less affluent area where it is common to see a person working on a partially disassembled car in the Wal-Mart parking lot.

BTW.....I have heard that in some communities, it is against the rules to work on a car in your OWN driveway. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/nonod.gif
 
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the only thing I seem to be having trouble finding lately is a stupid nyloc nut

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Hi Rob,
Try Luky's Hardware on Burbank Blvd. 1 block West of Hollywood way. South side of the street.
 
hmmmm... Burbank BLVD, eh? There seems to be a bunch of them 'hole in a wall' type places on that street... my favorite muffler shop is on that street across from Costco. There's some electronics shop great for obscure components on that street too... not sure the name of it, but my friend showed it to me a while back when we were looking for odd parts that none of the "major" electronics/electrical component chains carry.
 
I used to have a shop here that sold every electronic part you could think of... and several you didn't know existed... I sold him my old 1940's Westinghouse catalog for $100... He more collected stuff than sold it. The building is now a vacuum cleaner repair shop.
 
this place had zip ties large enough to zip tie two humans together with a single zip tie... oh the trouble you could get into with a handful of those things... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/devilgrin.gif
 
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