Bought myself a hardware store today

[belfert]

For someone who full times it doesn't make sense to carry a whole bunch of nuts and bolts.  I have a garage to store a small collection of this stuff.

I have a hardware store a mile or two away, but it takes a minimum of 20 minutes to make a trip over there and back.  If you were paying a repair person $75 an hour wouldn't you expect him or her to have basic hardware in their truck/van?  My time doesn't cost anything, but it can keep me from finishing projects.

[thomasinnv]

The word "store" that we so widely use to describe any type of establishment where we can buy an item, originally came from the phrase "store house", which in biblical times was used to describe a storage type facility for multiple types of items and goods. (think barns and silo's)

[buswarrior]

In the dreamland of lottery wins...

It is possible to have one of the industrial faster houses maintain a fastener inventory for you.

Same as the big box store, you have a magnificent multi-bin fastener collection, that they will come around and maintain, for a price, or you initially purchase the stock, and you just lift the part number off the bins that are emptying and order replacements.

And, I'm pissed at the big box stores. Cheap means crappy quality control. Proudly go to the industrial fastener supplier near you and for the price, enjoy fasteners that actually fit your tools according to spec.

I'm tired of CRAP @#$^#%^* screw heads that don't fit my screwdrivers.

And if you think Phillip's heads are bad these days, you should see what they have done to the Robertson screws for us Canadians...

happy coaching!
buswarrior