painting my nuts!

[TUG]

I play with my nuts alot but want them a different colour, maybe white or red not sure yet, as i will be spannering them a lot what is the best way to/best paint to resist chipping or looking crap after touching them? Thanks!
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[hazza]

Buy a set of anodised allen key fasteners from ebay. Most sellers tailor them to specific bikes. If you start painting your nuts ( ) its going to look shit. Seriously. And as you say, first spanner you take to them all the paint is going to chip off.
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[DrDonnyBrago]

Stay away from anodised aluminium bolts - they have no place on a bike, they strip easy and snap off at the first signs of torque.

Stop being a ponce, just replace them all with stainless steel, use a ruler to measure them all up and buy packs of them on ebay, you can buy all the ones you need with the same again left over and still spend less than you would on a coloured "kit".

[hazza]

Just to make clear, i would NEVER, EVER have anodised aluminium allen key bolts on my bike, its tacky and only one step away from neons in my eyes, but each to their own.
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3 Honda NC50's(Sold)-->'72 Puch Maxi S (Sold, want it back!)--> '90 Yamaha RXS 100 (Stolen)--> '87 Honda Cub 90(Sold) --> '95 Kawasaki Eliminator (Sold) --> '98 Bandit 600 (Sold) -->'07 SV650S (Current)

[Tenko]

I'd suggest dipping them in Blue Dragon Chinese Curry Sauce - nothing in the world shifts that stuff...

[TUG]

[WannaBeDude]

Very happy to hear of not using aliminuim bolts, as i'be just replaced all ( 90 %) my crappy nickel plated bolts with stainless steel. AFAIK, there are lightweight decent alturnatives, but whole bike must cost hundreds to do, and i'd be better off losing some fucking weight!

Theres a seller called boltmeup on fleabay whos sells loads at the best price, free post.

Now he sells so called bike packs, about 15 quid. Buy one of them, then order the rest when you come accross them.

Guessing it cost me about 50 quid, well worth it imo.

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[hazza]

[DrDonnyBrago]

[TUG]

[Grubby]

If you paint your bolts be prepared to have to repaint them every time you take a spanner or a socket to them again.
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[hazza]

But all the advice says don't paint them, they will look crap and won't be hard wearing, yet you are going to anyway......

The advice i gave you was perfectly valid. You wanted your nuts and bolts a different colour from standard. To my knowledge there aren't any options available for you in stainless, so i said go anodised.

Just because i wouldn't put them on my own bike is irrelevant, thats down to taste.
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[TUG]

Missing my point.

Anyway i will paint them as a test, its not for my bike, there for my skates.

Well i dunno about them chipping everytime you take a spanner to them because i've seen gloss black nuts on some quad skates before on the trucks (axles) and they get removed after every session, still looked good, maybe it was magic or maybe theres a way to seal in the paint so it doesn't come off so easy?
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