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matt_i

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I'd go look at it, verify grade markings. I don't think the bins will be as full as in the pic but I could be wrong.
 

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If the numbers are correct, the cost is a little over 10 cents per piece, not counting the worth of the cabinet. If you use a lot of hardware in those sizes then it is a good deal. But if you are buying it simply because you think it is a good deal, then in my opinion it is bad investment.
 
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Heh agreed, definitely not a good investment if the hardware wont get used! But sounds like it's not so cheap that alarm bells are going off for anyone. Good to know.

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Do not think it is a great deal, unless your in love with the cabinet.
Price out 100 count boxes of fasteners from McMaster or MSC.
I have a order being generated at Aircraft supply or spruce and paying .03 cents for AN washers. So its not that hard to beat the prices with good hardware.

Plus willing to bet the hardware is **** shinny but ****.
 

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To me yes.
If your hanging a static shelf they would be fine. If you just wanted an assortment it would work.
But I think you might do better buying by boxes of 100 and find a empty parts bin on CL
 
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It's like the Craftsman super duper tool assortments. Put in a bunch of filler to make the number of pieces vs price seem a bargain. The filler here is washers and such.

You'd be better off buying quantities of the fasteners you will actually use. If the cabinet is of the size you can use, it helps sweeten the deal a bit.
 

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Looks legitimate and normal price for a hardware assortment like that. Phone # comes back to http://agrilinesupply.com. Probably just a small single business owner trying to build his business.

Is it a deal? Who knows. Weigh it, subtract the weight of the bin. I think Fleet Farm around here is about $2.99/lb for Grade 5 if I recall correctly, and they're usually priced competitively. That assortment doesn't have anything pricey like nylock nuts, flange nuts, etc. which are a lot more per pound.
 

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I'd go look at it, verify grade markings...

IIRC, there are some significant issues with 'fake' grade markings on Chinese imported fasteners. It can be hard to test or really be sure if the fasteners are the grade specified if you don't have some reliable source information. :dunno:
 

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Wow that's a lot of nuts bolts and washers for sure!

I dunno would you need that many around at once?

Unless your really into fabrication or maybe just to sell them out of your garage :D


I've had a grade 5 head stamped chinesium SAE set same as the ATD for years and its all I ever needed for around the garage and farm. Got my set thru HF so long ago they were about half the current price back then. Bought myself some xtra bins and added 1/4" fasteners in in corresponding sizes

Over the time I mainly used up most all 3/8, 5/16, 1/4 inch. And in the shorter sizes like under 2 inch. Replacing them from bulk at the old Farm and Fleet store first and from TSC now. The unthreaded portion especially on the longer ones is going to limit their application. And quite honestly most peeps are not using the bigger up to 5/8" bolts all that much :p

A lot specialty fasteners motorcycle like my old Harley, some lawn equipment and of course automotive even though they may have a lot of cap heads your going to find you need something different and not even talking about metric. :lol_hitti

Just more thread, less shoulder, a different grade, different pitch, the lengths can often be oddball too and can fall in between the half inch sizing increments. Sometimes but not always depending on the shoulder you can just shorten a bolt or add a washer or two.

Overall the fasteners were totally fine for many projects of mine. And all coarse thread just remember too.
 

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Sounds like a good deal to me. I have wasted lots of time and gas only needing a .07 cent part to complete a job
 
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Sounds like a good deal to me. I have wasted lots of time and gas only needing a .07 cent part to complete a job

:beer:THAT:beer:! i always dream of having stuff on hand so I don't have to waste time going out to buy it. This stuff might be cheap and low quality, but might be "get the job done for now" good enough to be worth having on hand...'

I guess I have to figure out if the sizes match the "what will work for now until I get what I need" criteria in enough cases to be worth having on hand....

Laurie
 

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Did ya buy it yet? :headscrat:


Be interesting to get the manufacturer insignia's on the graded cap bolts since they should have to marked under the Fastener Quality Act for traceability.

I been tracing whats left of the old Harbor Fright supplied bolt set I had. They were mostly marked BY but there was a few "J"

The BY mark is for

Ben Yuan Enterprise Co., Ltd. No. 113, Chi-Nan Rd., Ta-She Hsiang Kaohsiung Hsien Taiwan 81546 Corporation Registration Number: 1782394

:D

The J on the other hand is long gone from the registry and is currently on a list of suspect counterfeit grade markings. And substandard grade markings especially for defense and industry mainly what was behind creating all this Federal registry stuff starting back in the late 80's

Some of the bolts mostly Grade 8 that I have sourced locally have been Rockford, Atlas stamped by name, And their are others that have this vertical split circle with horizontal center line which is MNP Corp Utica MI.

I do have many that have the triangle mark and that's listed as a Canadian source.

Looking around there is good number of US/North American addresses on the most current register 2017 and of course thee are overseas sources mainly Asian.

You can find some older registry links online with past marks

I remember once I guy I knew got a job working with some cable line installation concern and some of his bolts were marked OF

He says they must be a special bolt "OF" Overhead Fastener

Registry said OF was...

Oriental Fastener Co, China
 
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