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.
Myphatself@coldkennels but the cost is the same for a box of them as it would have been for 2 in the "proper" store.
@Myphatself Not even close. I paid £8 for this box. No traditional hardware store in their right mind would sell a 4mm long M1.7 bolt for £4.
Of course, they wouldn't be the same price per bolt compared to this box, so am I getting "more" for my money? Yes. But how much of this am I ever going to use? How much of it is just waste? And how much is the expertise/advice of the shop keeper worth?
The hyperfixation on "lower prices" - even when they're not lower in real terms - is ruining us.