Replacement bolts from Home Depot?
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Most are, even made in North America, only ones not are the austenitic ones.
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There is different metallurgy for stainless steel and magnetic or not is based on that, not the country. Amount of nickel used is what effects it I believe. It isn’t necessarily a quality issue, different by design.
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Slightly off topic.
I have a Tractor Supply not to far away. They sell (or used to) a whole aisle of nuts, bolts, washers, etc in a huge variety of sizes, by the pound.
I dropped about $40.00, and bought everything from 4-32, to 1/2 x 4” stuff. Dumped it all in a box. When in need, start digging, when there are extras, in they go. Has got me through enough issues to pay for itself.
I have a Tractor Supply not to far away. They sell (or used to) a whole aisle of nuts, bolts, washers, etc in a huge variety of sizes, by the pound.
I dropped about $40.00, and bought everything from 4-32, to 1/2 x 4” stuff. Dumped it all in a box. When in need, start digging, when there are extras, in they go. Has got me through enough issues to pay for itself.
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From: San Diego, CA
Slightly off topic.
I have a Tractor Supply not to far away. They sell (or used to) a whole aisle of nuts, bolts, washers, etc in a huge variety of sizes, by the pound.
I dropped about $40.00, and bought everything from 4-32, to 1/2 x 4” stuff. Dumped it all in a box. When in need, start digging, when there are extras, in they go. Has got me through enough issues to pay for itself.
I have a Tractor Supply not to far away. They sell (or used to) a whole aisle of nuts, bolts, washers, etc in a huge variety of sizes, by the pound.
I dropped about $40.00, and bought everything from 4-32, to 1/2 x 4” stuff. Dumped it all in a box. When in need, start digging, when there are extras, in they go. Has got me through enough issues to pay for itself.
I wouldn't be able to sleep if I did that... I would have to separate/store them in some kind of order...
Growing up, my Dad had about 10-20 coffee cans & glass jars, with assorted nuts/bolts/washers.... absolutely no rhyme or reason...
Guess who had to dig through that mess anytime he needed a nut/bolt/washer....???
Never again..!!
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A ferritic stainless steel owes its magnetism to two factors: its high concentration of iron and its fundamental structure. Both 304 and 316 stainless steels are austenitic, when they cool, the iron remains in the form of austenite (gamma iron), a phase of iron which is nonmagnetic