- 1. Bugeye grille fasteners (score: 1)
- Author: hello39@idt.net
- Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 09:53:34 -0400
- I have to wonder if someone has found a fasteners out there that holds the bugeye grille inplace and can be removed occassionally without destroying the clip or the tap on the grille. I am considerin
- /html/spridgets/1998-04/msg00861.html (7,800 bytes)
- 2. Re: Bugeye grille fasteners (score: 1)
- Author: Frank Clarici <spritenut@Exit109.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 10:29:20 -0400
- Alan I found "thread cutting nuts" at my local hardware store. They have a 3/8" head (wrench size) and cut a spiral on the grille studs. I use a nut driver to install and remove these gizmos. I have
- /html/spridgets/1998-04/msg00863.html (9,519 bytes)
- 3. Re: Bugeye grille fasteners (score: 1)
- Author: "Matt Liggett" <mliggett-receive-spridgets@elise.kiva.net>
- Date: 28 Apr 1998 14:22:51 -0000
- I'm not familiar with the bugeye grille, but have you considered Dzus fasteners? They are handy quarter-turn fasteners often used for holding body panels on racecars. -- <mml@pobox.com> Matt Liggett
- /html/spridgets/1998-04/msg00864.html (8,012 bytes)
- 4. Re: Bugeye grille fasteners (score: 1)
- Author: Dave Woerpel <dwoerpel@wi.net>
- Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 17:15:37 -0500
- Hello Alan! Things are going well at this end but not as quickly as I would like. When I first got my Bugeye in 1977 the grill was fastened on with little pieces of red plastic tubing; fairly rigid s
- /html/spridgets/1998-04/msg00877.html (9,136 bytes)
- 5. Re: Bugeye grille fasteners (score: 1)
- Author: "Larry and Sandi Miller" <millerls@msn.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 16:46:45 -0700
- I use a little metal cap nut with a rubber insert that I get from the local Porsche dealer. They were used on older 911's to hold the emblems on. Work great and last through many removals. Larry Mill
- /html/spridgets/1998-04/msg00880.html (9,908 bytes)
- 6. Re: Bugeye grille fasteners (score: 1)
- Author: dingram@tnet.net (DOUG INGRAM)
- Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 18:07:00 -0700 (PDT)
- Be very careful if trying to thread the studs...they have a tendency to break off easily. Also, if the grille is in any way warped, i.e. doesn't fit the body perfectly, tightening the fasteners to pu
- /html/spridgets/1998-04/msg00883.html (9,634 bytes)
- 7. Re: Bugeye grille fasteners (score: 1)
- Author: "Nathaniel J. Leon" <connectcds@home.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 07:55:30 -0400
- Dave you can get nylon tubing in sizes down to 1/8" and in some cases 1/16" ID at a place that specializes in hydraulics and pnuematics SMC makes a line of Nylon tubing that might work for approximat
- /html/spridgets/1998-04/msg00890.html (8,480 bytes)
- 8. Re: Bugeye grille fasteners (score: 1)
- Author: Dave Woerpel <dwoerpel@wi.net>
- Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 23:18:07 -0500
- Thanks for the info! I also saw another item that might work; those plastic molly fasteners that you insert into the wall and then a screw threads into that. The ones I saw are not tapered and come i
- /html/spridgets/1998-04/msg00916.html (8,834 bytes)
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