Cheap nuts and bolts - where?

[Travelover]

I live about 30 minutes from the nearest Tractor Supply, so I stopped into Lowes to get 25 5/16 x 1.25" bolts with nuts and flat washers. I couldn't believe the total cost was ten bucks.

Call me a cheapskate, but this seems excessive.

Anyone have another source for less expensive fasteners?

 

[RickB]

I'm not sure 40 cents for each for a bolt, nut and washer is excessive. Tractor Supply is probably a little cheaper.

 

[Erik_in_Hoyt]

do you have Ace or True Value hardware anywhere close?
They're not as cheap as TSC, but still sell bulk bits & pieces by the pound.

 

[2manyrocks]

Our local farmers coop has about the same prices as TSC on nuts and bolts.

Lowe's must figure their customers don't know any better.

 

[JohnDeere4300]

TSC sells nuts and bolts by the pound.

The cheap nuts and bolts are $1.99 a pound...You can also get different size washers for $1.99 a pound.

I'm stocked up very well on all sizes.

 

[QRTRHRS]

Guess I made out okay then when I bought about a ton of surplus bolts, nuts and washers by bid for 150 bucks? I figured I would sell some off at a flea market or something but then you never know what you are going to need, ha!

 

[RollTideRam]

I bought lag screws at a hardware store out in the country cheaper than I can get them at Lowe's. JC

 

[Skyco]

Ace doesn't sell by the pound here. The various grades at TSC priced by the pound are a pretty good deal. Whenever I stop in I buy a couple of pounds of various fasteners to keep on hand. I hate running all the way to the store for a dang single bolt
My big regret was when TSC quit selling Metric fasterns by the pound, if I'd have known they were gonna do that I'd have bought a hundred pounds, you'd think with all the imported tractors they'd have kept on

 

[jimmyj]

Guess I made out okay then when I bought about a ton of surplus bolts, nuts and washers by bid for 150 bucks? I figured I would sell some off at a flea market or something but then you never know what you are going to need, ha!

A TON. ha ha ha. Are they all the same size?

As the others said, best deals around here are the farmers coop or TSC. We have a retail chain called Home Hardware (like Ace) that sells by the pound too. They are all quite competitive on pricing.

 

[JohnDeere4300]

I just wish TSC had the lock-nuts by the pound.

I had to buy the lock-washers.. and I have 4lb. of them

 

[QRTRHRS]

A TON. ha ha ha. Are they all the same size?

As the others said, best deals around here are the farmers coop or TSC. We have a retail chain called Home Hardware (like Ace) that sells by the pound too. They are all quite competitive on pricing.

Many were ASTM graded industrial rated in both metric and standard up to maybe an inch or so diameter by six-eight inches long. Lots of grade five coated common sizes, big flat and lock washers, etc., etc.

It was all left over hardware from industrial installations with big ductile iron pipe, high pressure and high vac applications. I had to spend a couple of days sorting but it was worth it.

I just cannot seem to get around to selling some off, lol!

I am waiting patiently for the day when they install more equipment. The space is there covered with big steel plates just right for making a welding table.

FWIW, I used to find good hardware at yard sales and flea markets. Buy it and sit on it until the day you need it. Also, way back when, an employer talked the local Granger store into setting up an "employee account". You paid up front but got the business discount.

 

[archerm3]

Fastenal

if more people knew about them there wouldn't be a hardware aisle at Lowe's.

 

[tommu56]

mcmaster carr

order today by noon here tomorrow by 5:00

tom

 

[westcliffe01]

Typically need to order by the box (100 each). Then they are pretty cheap. Its fine for nuts, washers and nylocks. Bolts a bit trickier due to all the different lengths. Last 22RE engine rebuild I did was about $120 just to replace all the rusted fasteners, but I will NEVER put crappy fasteners back on an engine that I may have to work on again in the future..