[GTALUG] War Story: for want of a nail...

[Mel Wilson]

On Sun, 2016-06-19 at 17:43 -0400, James Knott via talk wrote:
> On 06/19/2016 05:39 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
> > I had to buy a pack of 26 screws and another of 28 nuts.  It is
> > interesting that those numbers are not equal.  I'd have to buy 13
> > boxes of nuts and 14 boxes of screws to have the same number of each.
> 
> I recall the Aikenhead's store on Temperance, where you could count out
> as many as you needed and put them in a small paper bag.

Home Hardware here (Bancroft) does that.  Such parts cost on the order
of a dime each.  Maybe the one on College St. that absorbed
Supremetronics?

	Mel.