19 Jun
2016
19 Jun
'16
2:54 p.m.
On Sun, 2016-06-19 at 17:43 -0400, James Knott via talk wrote:
On 06/19/2016 05:39 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
I had to buy a pack of 26 screws and another of 28 nuts. It is interesting that those numbers are not equal. I'd have to buy 13 boxes of nuts and 14 boxes of screws to have the same number of each.
I recall the Aikenhead's store on Temperance, where you could count out as many as you needed and put them in a small paper bag.
Home Hardware here (Bancroft) does that. Such parts cost on the order of a dime each. Maybe the one on College St. that absorbed Supremetronics? Mel.