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O.K...........I just got another "Education" with Reproduction "JUNK"......If you are putting your car together, be very careful of the sheetmetal "Nuts" you use....I used this type for installing the inner fender panels in my Chevelle a couple of years ago...Had to remove the panel for some repairs and when trying to unscrew the bolts.....the nuts broke out of the clip body.......Ended up grinding the bolt heads off.......The clip body is soft and the cross section where the nut is coined in is so small it can't accept any force to speak of and the nut just breaks out and spins.........."Don't" make the same mistake I did.........Be selective in buying these cage nuts and use U.S. made "Real" ones......."Chinese Junk".......Did I say "Chinese Junk" and shame on the retailers that have no Concern other than making a "Profit"......Just my $.02 about "Chinese Junk" again....

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Ken, Couldn't agree with you more!!! Been there and experienced that!! Like you said CHINESE JUNK!!!! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...thumbsdown.gif https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/no.gif

Rich

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Guess I'll be collecting these ( originals ) from now on https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...emlins/eek.gif

Thanks for the information.

Nuch

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Had the same trouble with bolt set for 68 car. Damm welds are not strong enough to hold the nut onto the cage assembly. Drives me crazy that dealers even sell the crap.

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Have to use originals and get them plated or redone. While it is more expensive, harder to locate and time consuming, it makes for a better AMERICAN musclecar restoration. The parts are out there, we just can not succomb to the junk to restore or AMERICAN iron. Great point and info Ken. You do know more things than just bratwurst and chedder cheese recipes. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/drool.gif I tried to tell Benny that but........... https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/dunno.gif you know him. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/haha.gif https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/beers.gif https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/haha.gif

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Have to use originals and get them plated or redone. While it is more expensive, harder to locate and time consuming, it makes for a better AMERICAN musclecar restoration. The parts are out there, we just can not succomb to the junk to restore or AMERICAN iron. Great point and info Ken. You do know more things than just bratwurst and chedder cheese recipes. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/drool.gif I tried to tell Benny that but........... https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/dunno.gif you know him. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/haha.gif https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/beers.gif https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/haha.gif

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Coming from East Coast "Guy's" that put Mustard on Pretzels...........Maybe that's why he's like that.....Too much Mustard..(Day 2itus).........Gotta balance that stuff out with Tasty Cakes..........

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Ken,
Etal check this out on TC:
http://www.camaros.net/forums/showthread.php?t=83635

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I grab them from junk yard cars every chance I get!

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Ken,
Etal check this out on TC:
http://www.camaros.net/forums/showthread.php?t=83635

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Everyone should take the time to read the Team Camaro thread......."Very Important".....It seems that everyone is afraid to call a "Spade" a "Spade" because of one reason.........Lawsuits and "Lawyers".......Take me back to the Sixties when Common Sense still had some meaning.....

Ken https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/flag.gif

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"Very Important".....It seems that everyone is afraid to call a "Spade" a "Spade" because of one reason.........Lawsuits and "Lawyers".......Take me back to the Sixties when Common Sense still had some meaning.....



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When you're loading that bus, SAVE ME A SEAT IN THE FRONT! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/worship.gif

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Your driving old man!! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/haha.gif https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/haha.gif

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If you're going be sure to wear some flowers in your hair...

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What I don't get is how/why a lot of this junk is allowed to be sold...it's dangerous!.

A couple years back I was helping a lad put a tractor back together he'd restored and we were working from his pile of shiny 'new' hardware that he'd picked up at the local TSC store..
The rear fenders were held on by long carriage bolts and as soon as I pulled the nuts tight and the length tension became necessary, the round heads just popped off!.
Looking closer at the bolts, the round head's were a completely separate piece and only held on by the chroming process...not a real one piece design which is what a carriage bolt is all about!.

No big problem in this curcumstance but if someone bolted critical parts together and they were tightened to the edge of failure...then popped off in use???.

I think the time's soon upon us where those that care will be sick of the sh*t parts and happy to pay three times the price or whatever's necessary for quality materials...made right here in North America!.

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~ Pete

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What I don't get is how/why a lot of this junk is allowed to be sold...it's dangerous!.

A couple years back I was helping a lad put a tractor back together he'd restored and we were working from his pile of shiny 'new' hardware that he'd picked up at the local TSC store..
The rear fenders were held on by long carriage bolts and as soon as I pulled the nuts tight and the length tension became necessary, the round heads just popped off!.
Looking closer at the bolts, the round head's were a completely separate piece and only held on by the chroming process...not a real one piece design which is what a carriage bolt is all about!.

No big problem in this curcumstance but if someone bolted critical parts together and they were tightened to the edge of failure...then popped off in use???.

I think the time's soon upon us where those that care will be sick of the sh*t parts and happy to pay three times the price or whatever's necessary for quality materials...made right here in North America!.

https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/dunno.gif
~ Pete

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"Bingo".............. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif

Ken https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/flag.gif

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If you're going be sure to wear some flowers in your hair...

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Been There.................LOL

Ken https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/flag.gif

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Your driving old man!! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/haha.gif https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/haha.gif

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"And" the first Stop is going to be Portillo's for some Beef "Sangwich's" for the Journey........

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