Nuts & Bolts, Where to buy Quality assortments Options

[spunone]

Looking for some good metric and standard Fastner (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beer.gif) assortments anybody happen to buy these sets or do ya just go to the hardware store and buy bags of Chinas Best ? Thanks

[sww914]

You don't need that much stuff to be pretty prepared for a 914. Most of the car is 6mm X 1mm and 8mm x 1.25mm, the standard thread pitches. I have 3 lengths of 8mm bolts, 4 lengths of 6mm bolts, flat washers, wave washers, lock washers, nylocs and standard nuts of each size, 2 lengths of 6mm phillips head screws, some VW fan shroud style screws, a couple of types of trim screws. All of this stuff I bought in boxes of 100, mostly it was 3-5 bucks a box. I also keep a bit of 10mm stuff, a similar assortment as above, but only 25 at a time. I got it from Wurth and from the local nut & bolt route driver dude. If you call a couple of shops they'll tell you who the nut & bolt guy is, mine will come to my house if I'm buying more than $20.00 worth of stuff.
Also, I keep a pretty good assortment of wire and terminals, 100 at a time for the common stuff, 25 at a time for the wierder stuff.
Also, If I do have to go to the hardware store, if I need 2 I buy 6 or 8.