Thirty years in the Auto/Electric business, I have coffee cans
absolutely full of just about every bolt, nut, and little screw that I
could ever ask for. That type of hardware is really on the bottom of
my shopping list.

On Apr 22, 10:32*pm, Tim wrote:
Thirty years in the Auto/Electric business, I have coffee cans
absolutely full of just about every bolt, nut, and little screw that I
could ever ask for. That type of hardware is really on the bottom of
my shopping list.

Same here, I save my stuff. It's in my heritage! Growing up in farm
country certainly had it's avantages. One thing, I can fix
anything.... if it broke, you fixed it, simple as that. I remember my
uncle went to an auction and came home with a few crates of nuts and
bolts, all fine thread! Those fine thread bolts and nuts ended up
holding a lot of stuff together! I'm not as bad as he was, though,
he'd save bent nails!

On Apr 23, 7:58*am, wrote:

I'm not as bad as he was, though,
he'd save bent nails!


now, that's a bit over the top.....

On Apr 23, 1:47*pm, Tim wrote:
On Apr 23, 7:58*am, wrote:

*I'm not as bad as he was, though,

he'd save bent nails!

now, that's a bit over the top.....

Well, it's not boat crap but I bought an areator for my tractor from
sears the other day, brought it back in hours, what a piece of ****.
Runny paint, sharp edges, cracked welds, and it did not even attach to
the tractor at all so I brought it back. They put a half price sticker
on it and put it back on the sales floor as clearance. So they were
willing to charge me 150 and the next day resell it for 75, unused..
Sears sucks too, back to Walmart for me.. At least I don't have to pay
an arm and a leg for cheap chinese ****...

On Apr 23, 1:47*pm, Tim wrote:
On Apr 23, 7:58*am, wrote:

*I'm not as bad as he was, though,

he'd save bent nails!

now, that's a bit over the top.....

Oh, yeah, it was almost like he was obsessed with being frugal! But,
he built some cool stuff! He made his own fold down camper with a pick
up truck rear end with gears removed, some channel iron, plywood,
canvas, and bent conduit. It worked like a champ! Now the funny thing
was somewhere, who know an auction, or whatever, he had freakin' BAGS
of heavy duty zippers. He sowed his the canvas and made window, using
the zippers, there were zippers in that camper of every color of
rainbow!

On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:55:00 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Apr 23, 1:47?pm, Tim wrote:
On Apr 23, 7:58?am, wrote:

?I'm not as bad as he was, though,

he'd save bent nails!

now, that's a bit over the top.....

Oh, yeah, it was almost like he was obsessed with being frugal! But,
he built some cool stuff! He made his own fold down camper with a pick
up truck rear end with gears removed, some channel iron, plywood,
canvas, and bent conduit. It worked like a champ! Now the funny thing
was somewhere, who know an auction, or whatever, he had freakin' BAGS
of heavy duty zippers. He sowed his the canvas and made window, using
the zippers, there were zippers in that camper of every color of
rainbow!

Good for him, not throwing useful stuff away.
I was lucky when I bought my last house from a retired carpenter.
He left me a million different fasteners and fixtures in the basement.
Coffee can heaven. And a good bit of oak lumber too of various
millings.
All I has to add was the machine and pipe thread fittings and I was an
instant carpenter/plumber/nechanic for that big old house.

--Vic

wrote:
If they do, they probably don't care enough to meet it for exports
heading to the USA. Anything, I mean ANYTHING I find with the made "In
China" label, goes back on the shelf.- Hide quoted text -

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What about the money that the U.S. of A is borrowing from none other
than China to fund the ridiculous war with Iraq?

I truly don't have much control over that, but I do have control over
what I buy when I look at the 'Made In...' label.