Working on my gate today....keeps the dogs in the yard....lag bolts pulling loose....
Wood is getting older....and I fold and open it everything time I come and go....It folds in the middle when swung open, so as to fit against the side fence
Decided to replace those lag screws with 5/16 bolts....all the way thru....and washers.
Off to Menards...
Picked out a package of 5/16 X4" bolts.....I needed 8.....
There was 11 in the package.....and was even marked "count 11".
11...?....what WTH is that...?.....Not 10, not 12, not 8, or 6....But 11..??
Now the nuts must be made in the same Chinese factory....as the come 11 in a package as well.....But washers was a 12 count?
Now I am used to pkg of 5, and have to buy that pkg when you need 4 right?...so now there is an extra one...that never gets used but put with all the other orphan bolts, screws washers nuts.. NC, NF...all thread, hex head, carriage head, dual slot screw pam head.....and any odd left over "stuff".
All end up "IN THE PAN" (old frying pan with handle broken off)....wider and easier to dig thru.
Every 5 years or so...."The Pan" get dumped onto a 30 cal. ammo can....and given as house warming and wedding gifts.....They get regular gifts as well.....
Usually get funny looks and...and "Is this a joke"?.....Then 5 years later I get a thank you.
Hummm ..."Idea for SHTF construction materials stash?"
I digress...
As I get older, I don't have the patience to dig thru "The Pan".... if I need more that "one" of whatever...so it's off to the store to increase my collection of "One too many" or need 12 but only 11 in the pkg, so you end up with 10 extra?...Just remember where the are...
Farm an Fleet sells a lot of standard bold nut washers......log grade general use...buy them the pound, yet...dump what
You need in a bag....weigh up and pay for it.
Should sort ALL my hardware into multiplies of 2, 4, 6, 8 etc....then make up a big bag of odd balls to fill in the blanks?...
Nawwww........LOL
But is 11..... the new Chinese dozen....?
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