TonyI had to buy a box of nine hundred assorted panhead bolts just for two M1.7 ones to repair a Weston Master light meter.
The modern age is dumb. Bring back proper hardware stores, please.
My mum worked in a local hardware store before I was born. Even when I was a teenager, she was bumping into people she knew from her time there; regular customers who would sometimes pop in for one specific bolt, a couple of sheets of sandpaper, or an assortment of O-rings.
While this is no means a new statement, every so often I am reminded that we have just lost so much as a society.
Tristan Colgate-McFarlane@coldkennels my grandfather worked in one in Croydon, I only went in once or twice when I was *very* young, but my memory of it is *exactly* the one int he Two Ronnies sketch.
@tmcfarlane Hah. That's how I remember the one my mum used to work in - a real relic. It survived until the turn of the millennium, but it was gone by the time Google Street View first visited the area in 2009. The space it used to take up holds a curry house now.
@coldkennels my grandad even had the long brown coat. I actually don't really remember where it was, either central croydon (maybe round near the law courts), or up in new addington. I'd be shocked if the building is still there (this must have been about '84.