Originally Posted by
miked
We don't know your experience, rather than assume many will give advise to those who are new. To take offense to this advice is wrong, Remember others reads these threads because they have the same interest/questions. Mike
sorry, I frequently forget that Internet posts are monotone lack facial expressions. My intention was sarcasm, saying yes, I know this, but thank you anyways for taking the time to contribute your knowledge and experience to my thread.
Originally Posted by
Mechanic688
Don't forget that a lot of the screws in H.D.'s are S.S. use the ole
magnet. And yes I have bought H.D.'s where they drilled the hole thing, board and all.
If I unscrew it, and I need to grab it with my fingers/scrappy tweezers, because the screw didn't pull out with the drill bit, that's my first clue/annoyance. Really though, for ease I just put ALL fasteners I remove into an empty Tang container, which then is emptied into a 1 gallon mayonnaise/salad dressing tub from work (Chefs have access to uber plastic containers). All is dumped into a large, flat plastic...thing...where they are spread out and sorted by magnet. (The thing...Drive behind a post office or UPS Store sometime you will see them stacked up. And no, I didnt. My father's a postmaster.) NonMags are put with SS, with the rare Brass screw (I seem to find them frequently?), and the rest are kept for personal use in wood working projects or whatever. I keep large bolts for sealing minifridges and microwaves that I stuff full of bricks.....umm....my small shred items. (Kidding, I waste my time trying to pick pine needles out of my copper bucket just to keep it pure.)
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