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If a person were to need a bunch of AN hardware (bolts, nuts, washers, pins, etc.), who would your favorite supplier be and why?

Obviously AC Spruce is the 800# gorilla in the room for this, but who else would you use?  Fastenal or other fastener supply type of place?  Somebody else?

Thanks.

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All the hardware supplied with my Avid+ kit came from www.spenceraircraft.com They will have everything you need at better than spruce prices.

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I caught wind of a guy in our local area that is a retired United guy. These days he sits in his garage and sells hardware and tells stories. He has everything imaginable. I bought every bolt for my wings, struts, elevator, elevator struts, a ton of cotter pins, and some other miscellaneous stuff for $35. Can't beat that!

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So he's financing his retirement by selling off the stuff he lifted from work one lunch-boxful at a time, huh...    :ididntdoit:

I need to find one of those around here!

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So far Fastenal is kicking everyone.  I can get what I need, per piece cheaper than anyone else who has quoted me.  

I can afford to buy several of the pieces (nuts bolts and washers) in "box quantity" of 100 and still only have a couple of bucks more than per piece prices.  AN cotter pins come in boxes of 1000 for only $5-7 each.

(I will send the pricing spreadsheet I've made to anyone who asks for it.)

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one of my flying buddies worked a Lockheed,..he has bins full of titanium bolts an hardware wire looms etc and solid rivets of all sizes

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That's exactly what he's doing Larry!

So he's financing his retirement by selling off the stuff he lifted from work one lunch-boxful at a time, huh...    :ididntdoit:

I need to find one of those around here!

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Well, not everyone can bring a Cadillac out of work like Johnny Cash, I worked for the railroad and some of th things I was told to through out in a dumpster found one a little closer to home, anyone need a two-stroke powered grinder? 

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Well, not everyone can bring a Cadillac out of work like Johnny Cash, I worked for the railroad and some of th things I was told to through out in a dumpster found one a little closer to home, anyone need a two-stroke powered grinder?

It's the same everywhere - a guy I worked with got fired for walking out of Chrysler plant with a gallon of paint he took out of the dumpster - at the same time, a $51 Million plant clean-out and remodeling was going on and it all went out on a scrap train -

I later bought 5 gallon buckets of Chrysler tools and milling cutters and such from a local salvage seller for $25 a bucket!

When I worked for the Coast Guard, they scrapped new stuff every week - $$$$ of it!

Government and Military are the biggest wasters we have.

EDMO

Edited by Ed In Missouri

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I know where there are 4 train car loads of suburbans, you just need an excavator to dig them up, We had a derailment on the Main line and they decided it would be quicker to bury them than to spend the time to haul them out. The Railroad wastes a lot of money on cargo because it costs too much to stop a coal train, or UPS.they Have a quarter million or more resting on multiple trains if they are late they are free and one derailment can cost millions in lost reveue before the track is back up.

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I can add "the biggest polluters" to the government and military - there is a pit covered in concrete in Alaska where crates of machine guns and other stuff are buried. Fuel and chemicals are routinely buried at every military site.

EDMO

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we are getting off topic, but where I was stationed in Germany the post sat atop an underground airport that still has WWII airplanes in it, they would take off and land through a tunnel and when we took it we just blasted most of the entrances closed and left it set.

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there are buildings full of pickled military equipment near K-town not far from Ramstien

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I was at the rock near Butzbach and Giessen Ayers Kasserne there are still a lot of bombed out factories around that area too.

Edited by Trackwelder

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When were you "old-timers" in Deutchland? I was there 60 to 62, when they closed the Berlin wall in August, 1961.

EDMO

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lol ED I was there in 1977 spent some time at landstuhl general getting bolted back together :)

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lol ED I was there in 1977 spent some time at landstuhl general getting bolted back together :)

I was mostly halfway between Nuremberg and Stuttgart - lots of traveling tho as courier - been all over Europe - Had fun sometimes - don't ever want to go back as a GI....You know that! Got our butts chewed royally for chasing a fox in a Bell H-13, and topped a hill and scared hell out of a farmers chickens - cost a lot of Uncles money for all the eggs he said he didn't get - typical BS!

Ed

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in 62 I was in Japan,..left there in 64,..I was a kid then dad was survival trainer for airforce pilots,..if you remember the first throat mics,..my dad was one of the designers also

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I spent my first 4 years in the Airforce 99-03 at RAF Mildenhall in East Anglia England. During the height of WWII there was a base every couple of miles across that part of England. I went to a lot museums and was fortunate enough to see the Duxford Legends Airshow twice. I've spent quite a bit of time at Ramstein, Bitburg, Frankfurt, and Ktown as well. I'd love to get stationed in Germany.

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I miss the food :) trying to remember the name of the club there,,,club Kazabra? across from PX in vogelweh?

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I was there in the mid 80's, I was th company scrounge and drove everywhere around Europe to trade our extras for what we needed, I got run over by a new seargeant in a HUMMER in Grafenwehr and that did in my career, I have had a bad back ever since. I don't trust New York drivers either. I spent most of my time as an acting jack Sgt so I could have more influence while trading and they didn't have to pay. Spent many a weekend at the Topper club in Frankfurt.

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