Reading ETKA hardware #s

[Huw Powell]

> > Just trying to get some hardware from the local nut/bolt shops instead of
> > $1/$2 a piece from the dealers.
> 
> Do yourself a favor:  replace with Stainless Steel!

warning - unless it is one of those funny greyish black hardened bolts
in the suspension, etc.

> 
> > Someone posted a while back an explanation of the fiche/etka numbering
> > system for hardware dimensions, but I can't find it. (It's for suspension
> > rebuild, BTW.) Well, it was Mike Hopton, but I couldn't find the answer.
> >
> 
> > N 011 445 7   Hex bolt (M10x45x20)
> > 10mm dia, 45mm long, 2.0 pitch?

I think the "20" refers to an unthreaded portion of the bolt.  to the
best of my peering the fiche/etka never seemed to specify thread pitch. 
But if this is right it would be nice to know...

-- 
Huw Powell

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