I wanted to buy local

[johnjk]

The wife ordered up these corrugated planters online. Some assembly required. Not bad overall. Took us about 40 min to get the first one together. The second one, well we are in a hold. Got 2 bags of washers and nuts and no screws. Each unit uses 80 screws. Hop in the car and headed to my local Ace Hardware. Tell the guy I need 90 M6-1x15mm bolts and show him one from the other planter. Oh yeah we got them and heads to the little drawer. Turns out they have 8 and they are .80 each. Asked for a bulk package or bulk price. Nope. .80 each all we can do. I’m not paying $72 plus tax. Headed to the big box store. HD has NO Metric fasteners. I know when to call defeat. The wife emailed the seller and it is 4-6wks to get replacement parts. Found what I need on Amazon for around 12 bucks. Be here Tuesday.

 

[RCW]

That stinks.

I often get nuts/bolts from TSC by the pound. That said, they sell SAE that way, not metric.

Betting you could convert those you’re lacking to SAE for less than $20.

I’ve had times my local hardware store could sell me $20 worth of nuts/bolts by the little package, when I could get same thing from TSC for less than $1 by the pound at TSC.

Just a suggestion.

 

[85Hokie]

TSC by the pound.......... excellent choice!

 

[johnjk]

Had I been thinking I would have hit RK as well. TSC is about 30 minutes further in the opposite direction. I didn’t want to buy nuts as well since I have a ton but yeah, SAE would have been better

 

[NCL4701]

Wow! You could probably do better than $0.80 each at Fastenal. Of course you might not have one around the corner. I have one six miles from my house and they’re not cheap but they’re not bad in bulk quantities.

 

[WFM]

McMaster-Carr supply has everything, and they ship it right out, but expensive.
MSC supply has just about everything but is way less then McMaster.
Local hardware stores are the most expensive.

 

[lugbolt]

TSC doesn't get any of my business unless they're the only place that has it. They're the most expensive place in town to get farm type stuff. There is a co-op across town, and then there's a farm supply place-which is about 1/2 the cost of TSC, and usually better stuff. Great owners, locally owned-been there for decades. I am there at least twice a week.

McMaster has GOOD stuff, good quality-but again, expensive. Quick to ship too. I like them for some things that I can't get nowhere else. Grainger is closeby. But so is the local industrial supply which has almost everything that Grainger has, and usually in stock every time I go over there.

I found a LOT of locally owned small businesses that carry the stuff that "usually" I need, and often less expensive than big box stores. "Everyone" at work goes to homer depot for an item, when it's available cheaper, and more readily available at the farm store, which is also MUCH easier to access.

 

[GreensvilleJay]

curious, are these planters made from galvanized steel ?
If so I wouldn't grow veggies in them.

 

[fried1765]

curious, are these planters made from galvanized steel ?
If so I wouldn't grow veggies in them.

Galvanizing preserves things!
So if you eat veggies grown in galv. containers, perhaps you will be better preserved?

 

[Sidekick]

curious, are these planters made from galvanized steel ?
If so I wouldn't grow veggies in them.

I use mostly galvanized beds and a little zinc is good for you. My best beds are made from 60 year old pool extrusions that still look like new. Just getting started

 

[Dustball]

15mm is an unusual length. Metric screws are usually even numbered lengths until you get over 24mm where it's then by multiples of 5.

 

[johnjk]

curious, are these planters made from galvanized steel ?
If so I wouldn't grow veggies in them.

No they are powder coated

 

[johnjk]

Here they are assembled. Filling them with the corn shocks I removed from the ditch and adding soil on top. Can’t buy bulk topsoil around here this year so bags it is

 

[jimh406]

It probably would have been cheaper to use SAE new bulk nuts and screws from HD and reuse the washers.

But, at least you got it done!