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

[Bob Jonkman]

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Mel Wilson wrote:
> 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?

Home Hardware in Elmira has (had?) a big scale with a suspended pan.
You could scoop a bunch of bolts, nuts, washers and other assorted
hardware bric-a-brac into the pan, then pay by weight. Alas, the store
has "modernized" and I haven't seen that scale in years.

- --Bob.


On 2016-06-19 06:53 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
> | From: Mel Wilson via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
> 
> | 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?
> 
> I'm jealous.  I paid slightly more than a dime each, buying in 
> bulk. Each pack cost 2.97 (+ tax).
> 
> Apparently I've never before needed this size of machine screw 
> (otherwise I'd already have them).  So the packages will probably 
> be clutter for the rest of my life.
> 
> A trip to Bancroft would cost even more.  And I'd put it off until
>  July 28th (53rd Rockhound Gemboree).  And then I'd come home with 
> rocks that I'd clutter my house with.
> 
> <http://rockhoundgemboree.ca/>
> 
> (I do recommend the Gemboree although I haven't made it in a
> couple of decades.  I still have rocks from there.  The field trips
> were great.) --- Talk Mailing List talk at gtalug.org 
> https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
> 
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