Re: Fastenal

Posted by JerryS on July 15, 2019 at 00:50:46 from (104.49.161.5):

In Reply to: Fastenal posted by mark poss on July 14, 2019 at 17:22:29:

I have never used Fastenal for shipping, and I've never bought anything from them. In fact, I've never been in one of their stores. Even so, I have about $2500-$3000 worth of new merchandise from Fastenal. My daughter worked for the company in Houston for about a year. Her store was having an inventory or some kind of records purge and they started cleaning stuff off the shelves and hauling it to the dumpster out back. Some of it was partial packages of stuff, but mostly unopened boxes and bags of nuts, bolts, other kinds of fasteners, chains, tarps, tape, Bondo, cleaners, solvents, respirators, etc. When I say boxes and bags, I mean 500 or so nuts or bolts or other stuff per package. Few tools, but almost anything else you can think of.

The thing that impressed me most, I guess, were the dozens of specialty drill bits and machining cutters of all sizes. I priced some of them on the Fastenal web site and some ran $50, $60, $70 bucks each.

Needless to say, my daughter went dumpster-diving and brought me as much as she could grab.

A year or so later she transferred with the company back here at home in Louisiana, where she worked as-needed in several area stores. One of the stores was being closed, and the scene was repeated, but on an even greater scale. She squirreled away even more loot, and I went back up there myself and pulled out some really interesting stuff. For instance, there was a box containing 10 6-foot piano-type hinges, 4" wide when opened. There were dozens and dozens of fire-retardant welding shirts of various sizes, still in the plastic bag. I retrieved about 50 of the things, plus a bunch of other stuff.

I can't remember all the things we stashed, because this was about two years ago and I haven't looked at the stuff since. That points up the fact that I don't really need any of it as my piddlin' and putterin' days are about over. I might try to sell some of the higher-dollar items, and find somebody to give the rest to. The shirts I'll probably donate to the local trade school for their welding classes.

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