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Woodside:
Side panel Lower mounting grommet
Five frigging quid from Ds......plus postage
I buy boxes of 100 grommets for less than that for work......allbeit they would be absolutely useless for this application?
Is this what I have to pay or does anyone know of another option...I know a tenner won't break the bank but seriously sometimes it stings abit

royhall:
Think you may be stuck with it if you want the correct items.

Have just about finished two Honda restorations now, and the parts that were the most ridiculous prices were all the rubber parts.

The silliest were new carb isolators for the 750F2 from the States, they ended up at just short of £140. And they are just sitting in a box unused because they didn't fit correctly and they were made from the wrong rubber (Ash had them tested). And at that price they didn't even come with clips.

Major rip off (and you cant even say rip off Britain as they came from the States).

Bodd:
DS should be wearing a mask and stripy tee-shirt, £2.70 for one copper washer + £2.95p+p when you can get a pack of 20 identical washers for £2.95 with free postage from ebay .
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The guy at 400 four bits has a couple of pairs of lower side panel rubbers in the miscellaneous section.

Clem2112:
I wouldn't use ebay copper washers on a rebuild personally...

The genuine copper washers are the correct thickness, annealed to have the correct properties etc.
After being installed they could have hardened slightly?
Old ones can be cleaned and re-annealed it is said.

Bodd:
When I stripped it the bike had steel washers so re-annealing wasn't an option, the copper ones from ebay are exactly the same as the ones from DS, same size, same thickness and advertised as sealing washers, the bike is fine and the torque on the bolts is still perfect, £2.95 from ebay or £34.00 from DS, no brainer, sometimes I think people restoring bikes are over cautious and I bet if you test a DS washer to the ebay washer you wouldn't find any difference.

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