Post #1210840

2026-04-03 12:24 UTC

If it is just bolts I'll just re-use in a stretch (boom tish) and order in to replace those later, but prefer to avoid that if I can... and whilst aware this can be an issue in ordering parts sometimes, also just lean away from ordering extra bits just in case... because that is an explanation for a good chunk of the hoarded crap I own.

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@yvan@toot.ale.gd 2026-04-03 13:30

Of course the specific M8 screws that came with the drive shaft and the spread plates don't actually seem to be any listed Febi part, the only place I can find they exist is with this specific drive shaft listing. Febi does have a part number for equivalent drive shaft screws, but they're not black, and are spline rather than hex. I twill totally do my head in to know that the left and right sets of bolts down there aren't the same. (Yes, my head, it has problems.) The spread plates don't seem to have any sort of Febi part at all. I have found bolt/plate sets on eBay for £too-much... I think my mentally sound way to deal with this is to clean up the existing spreader plates and re-use them, and buy 12x of the spine head bolts. (£0.72 on "onlinecarparts.co.uk".) So in the end I'll end up with the same amount of "extra" parts lying around as if I'd ordered the full set of 12 bolts in the first place. 🤡

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