Thread: My propensity for buying faulty goods continues.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Only last week I bought, amongst much other paraphernalia, 2 x 25 stapled blister packs of ¼" nuts, bolts and washers, from Hbarn. Went to use them on the weekend to find four bolts short from one pack. Thanks to an on the fly variation, I only needed 36 instead of the planned 48. Thank goodness for triangulation.

My favourite shop in the world is the bolt shop. Where a person will spend half an hour looking for a tiny bag of nuts/bolts/washers for you and charge you $3.2. Mean while that tiny bag of hardware would be $28 at hammerbarn once you'd find them. The blister pack tax.

Originally Posted by Captain_Rightfoot

My favourite shop in the world is the bolt shop. Where a person will spend half an hour looking for a tiny bag of nuts/bolts/washers for you and charge you $3.2. Mean while that tiny bag of hardware would be $28 at hammerbarn once you'd find them. The blister pack tax.

My "local" bolt shop is 40km away and considerably more expensive than the big green shed.
The bliter pack tax is more than compensated by the who uses imperial discount.

A few weeks ago I ordered a radiator hose online for my brother's car. The first site I visited had the decency to say it would be on back order, the second one didn't so it took weeks to arrive.

Originally Posted by BradC

On the other hand, years ago I bought a pile of threaded plumbing fittings from Bunnings. For convenience I screwed the whole lot together and when I was checking out I was distracted by a (mine) rowdy 3 year old. I got to the car and checked the receipt and she'd only scanned the first bar code leaving me with about $30 in "freebies". I headed back inside with 3 year old in tow and was politely told "Don't worry about it, not worth our time".

That's a good wheeze. Why didn't I think of that?

My local bolt shops (2) are closer than my local hammerbarns ( also 2). Thing is, the bolt shop mob know what they are doing, and most of the stuff I want is not available in a blister pack. Both bolt shops have the (dis?) advantage of being near the tool shops. Oh wait, one tool shop has moved, to opposite the hammerbarn as it happens. Nevermind, the other one is near TWO tool shops. AND a hammerbarn... Spoilt for choice, me.

This story is even worse as I didn't even buy the part! When I got home today my retired truck driver neighbour was fiddling around with his car for awhile, so I went over to see what was wrong. Turns out he'd ordered a new tail light for his tray back Hilux, but it wouldn't fit due to different plugs, and the big "Auto" chain wouldn't take it back, so I ended up cutting off the plugs and wiring it up for him, was doing my head in at first as four colour changes in the wiring between old and new plugs and lights! While packing up I looked at the box and it said IIRC FJ75 Cruiser?