Over the weekend, I was taking apart the gearbox on one of my motorcycle. I use a muffin tray for putting all the fasteners as I remove them, however the tray was rather precariously balanced on piles of stuff. You guess it, it tipped and the parts went flying to all the dark crevices of my garage. After more than an hour of moving boxes of "stuff" and looking under everything with my flashlight on my knees, I've managed to recover all but one fastener. It's a metric bolt with a Torx head. The dealer said it will take 2 weeks, so I'm really tempted to make my own. The screw has two shoulders with a M12 thread. The only problem is creating the Torx screw head. How do you do this? Perhaps I can make 3 more and convert all of them to Allen hex, but it doesn't seem any easier. Perhaps I can buy a stock Torx bolt and saw off the just the head and braze it on the screw portion that I can machine. Any idea?
Albert
Albert
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