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Tuesday, January 20, 2004

Evans new shop of the moment is brought to you by Harrison and Bonini. Evan wanted longer bolts for this spacer thing for his quick-release steering wheel. Right when he said that i had a flashback of that place Harrison and Bonini. It's a store which sells nothing but nuts n bolts and anything that joins, thus the fastener store. Wingnuts included there berto.. The only downfall of this place is they wholesale which means you can't get 5 or 10.. the minimum is 100. Is that weak or what?? Evan is looking for a pan-head (buttonhead) hex head m5x16mm with a pitch of .8. At home depot, they only have pan-heads. Home depot has buttonheads but it's only philips or slotted style, not what evan wants. Same with OSH. Theres one ACE hardware where it's got some goodies, but evan called and they only have m5x14 or m5x20. Evan asks where else can you get it.. Where else but Harrison and Bonini.

It all began back in the day when we were playing with Radio Controled cars. The R/C cars sucked in which when you broke something it would cost tons of monies to replace. One of the parts were bolts.. Pan head M3x8mm's, at the hobbyshop it was mad how much it costed for like 5 of them. So we went to search for other sources. Off to Home Depot, Lowes, Mom n Pop Hardware stores. The same ACE as mentioned and then finally leading us to Harrison and Bonini. When we got there and talked to the guy we just wanted maybe 12-15. 'We don't sell in that small amount'.. oi! So what the guy did was put the 12 or 15 into an envelope and told us that we could have it.. and that it was a 'sample'.. that place rulez..

So the moral of the story is, if your looking for some different length bolts of somesort, go to the ACE hardware first, then if it doesn't work, then your stuck with one place left.. Harrison and Bonini. I'd put it on the approved list, but since they don't sell in small quantities it's not my flavor.

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