Does anyone know of a source for reasonably priced, prepackaged hardware assortments? I keep finding myself in the middle of a project, discovering I need a lockwasher or nut or someother bit of hardware and having to drive to the store, an hour trip, for a .12 cent part. This is for vehicles and equipment, so I really need a decent selection of SAE course and fine hardware, nothing metric. Thanks,

Bob

-- Robert (STBARB@usa.net), January 13, 2001

Answers

Graingers,,, norther equipment,,, most any mail order tool supplier. Check in the back of popular science/mechanix magazines.

-- Stan (sopal@net-port.com), January 13, 2001.

Bob.. Harbor freight has nice selections of what you are looking for... prices not horrible... they're at [url]www.harborfrieght.com [/url]...

understand your problem... I live about 25 miles from a decent hardware store... once a month I saved $$ for going to the nearest farm/fleet type store to buy those various kits...bolts, nuts, washers, lag bolts, eye bolts, set screws, e-clips, roll pins, hair pin clips, grease zerks, woodruff keys, 2' lenghts of threaded rods, wooden dowels, ... on and on...

do consider some metric... you'd be surprised how soon it appeared on vehicles....

I started with a basic list and ended up with a nice collection after time... and I'm a single mother with 3 kids driving cars that use this stuff regularly...plus what we use around the homestead...

and it has paid off greatly in time and money...

my dream is still to get a collection of hardened or grade 8 bolts and nuts... ah, dream.... and more saving...

-- Mary Ann (peanut@wi-net.com), January 14, 2001.

I lived on an island once that had 3 monthly shipping service and about 3,000 population. We never dumped anything 'that might come in handy', old vehicles were either dismantled or just parked in a big lot. Same with household stuff and just about everything else. Now I live in a house in the city and my workshop is packed with plastic containers of stuff I know I will never use. But when I want something I can usually find it in my 'store'. Besides pulling stuff apart is good therapy!

-- john hill (john@cnd.co.nz), January 20, 2001.