On Thursday 31 December 2009, Frank Tkalcevic wrote: >> My past experience with the general quality of the staffing >> at the big hardware stores (that will remain nameless) - >> except for maybe >> McLendons :-) - the interface would have to be pretty brain dead. > >That reminds me of a story I heard.... > > > Went to Bunnings (local Australian hardware chain) to get > an M5-0.8mm tap to clean out the paint/powder-coat in the > threaded parts of my pushbike frame. > > Was standing in the tool shop holding a pack of 3 imperial > taps (all I could find) and asked the guy standing there > in a Bunnings uniform if they sold metric taps. > > He told me he was the expert in the tool shop and that I > should ask someone from plumbing about taps.
And he wouldn't know about anything smaller than 1/2" NPT, and knows all 3 answers to the plumbers test I'd assume. Oh boy... And they live among us, even breeding more of them & that _is_ scarey. I don't know where I might get the tap, but I believe even Tractor Supply ( a farmer supply type store, from clothes, tools, animal feeds etc) might have the bolts. Cheap grade steel at grade 12 prices or higher of course. Gotta pay somebody to bag them up 2 to the bag you know. And up here on the other side of this ball of rock, I'd be willing to bet that Ace Hardware either has it or could get it, they are the next to the last resort here, with McMaster- Carr being the ultimate bail you out place. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) "Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons for it afterwards." -- Soren F. Petersen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
