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Bikes: 1940s Fothergill, 1959 Allegro Special, 1963? Claud Butler Olympic Sprint, Lambert 'Clubman', 1974 Fuji "the Ace", 1976 Holdsworth 650b conversion rando bike, 1983 Trek 720 tourer, 1984 Counterpoint Opus II, 1993 Basso Gap, 2010 Downtube 8h, and...
M5 x 0.8 threaded bolts... Are there no standards?
Pardon my rant, but...
I have M5 x 0.8 bolts on probably every bicycle I own. They hold on the fenders, water bottle cages, racks, and so on. I like them.
And I like being able to use Allen wrenches on them.
But some are stainless steel, some are black, some are chromed, and some are just rusty. Worse, they take every imaginable size wrench from 2 mm to 5 mm. Many of the smaller ones no longer take any known Allen wrench size, the hexagonal hole having gotten rounded out somehow.
I would like to replace them all with some standard size, in stainless steel. Any suggestions where to get good ones?