On Wed, 14 May 2003, Jeffrey Earl wrote:

> Lots of other cool little widgets: thick rubber
> washers for mounting the fiberglass luggage rack to
> the roof, roll pins for the latch mechanism on the
> wing windows, various stainless steel fittings,
> grommets for passing electrical wires thru bodywork
> bulkheads, etc..
>
> Good reasons to shop local -- when I ask for this
> kinda stuff at the Home Depot, all I get is dumb looks
> ...

ACE Hardware is pretty good for that stuff, too, as well as metric
fasteners.  Actually, most local and/or chain hardware stores are probably
the same.

David Brodbeck, N8SRE
'82 Diesel Westfalia
'94 Honda Civic Si