I've been wrenching on bikes since 1967 (the old man said snippily, as he expectorated into his stained, white beard*), and I've lived in very humid environments (Washington, DC! Karachi, Pakistan! New Delhi, India in the monsoon season!) and I've neglected my full share of bolts, and I have never, ever seen a bolt rusted so that the threads bound.
It's not a real problem. Your True Value or Ace Hardware store bolt from the bin is going to last you years, if not decades as long as you apply a bit of grease to the threads before installing, as you'd do anyway to keep it from binding.+ * But I'm not as old as Steve Palincsar! And I don't have a beard. And my hair isn't white. And I'm younger than Steve. I was 12 in 1967. + I recently had a bolt bind so hard in the boss that I was sure it would not come out; all the more distressing in that this was a fender bolt on the new Chauncey-Matthews-Replacement-For-The-2003-Riv-Custom. Just weeks, not years. But this was because Chauncey, with all his virtues, had neglected to grease the threads. As it was, the gods were favorable and by patient working at it, I got it out without breaking bolt or stripping threads. On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 1:23 PM aeroperf <dorem...@comcast.net> wrote: > > Regular water rusts steel, too. I wash my bike occasionally, and once I > find the right seat/position, I don’t move it for a few years. So moisture > has time to act. > I’m not worried about a standard steel bolt rusting to the point of > locking in place. It is more of a looks thing. There’s a reason they used > stainless to begin with. > The clamp-specific bolt you show also looks like it is stainless. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/ff4eec26-dfe4-4b4e-b841-4865b401deb8o%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/ff4eec26-dfe4-4b4e-b841-4865b401deb8o%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfgs8FdCZ-HTgrC3iZe__uEeByhWoHyi5p0_b8LahcCRS%3Dw%40mail.gmail.com.
