^ that. Super cool solution oriented guys and pricing not particularly different from the hardware store.
Industry is a different world. I once ordered tens of boxed of 100pcs of fasteners from our supplier, had to question the quote because it was so low. Like less than a dollar per box.
Same with steel, on the suppliers website lengths of steel and aluminum cost $50 - $100, our price $5.27. It is crazy, I need to stock up while I can.
Bolt Bin had amazing prices. https://www.theboltbin.com/ Not sure if public prices are as good.
I will throw in belmetric.com for quality metric fasteners. They have a bunch of OEM style metric fasteners in different specs (DIN, ISO, JIS, etc), different materials (8.8, 10.9, 12.9, ss), different platings (zinc, yellow, black oxide, etc). I have used them to complete a few projects where I wanted oem type flange head, yellow cad looking fasteners. Not sure how the price is compared to others, but they have no minimums and I can just order what I need.
McMaster, for everything.
They have a CAD drawing of pretty much every product on file as well. No excuse for you ordering the wrong part.
I've had good luck with bolt depot too.......but those blue bins pictured above are not a really good solution - reason is they get dirty really quickly and a pain to clean - imagine removing all the fasteners in one of those boxes, blowing them out then cleaning each handful of bolts or nuts......I use clear boxes that have lids on them, so you can see what's in them, I also put labels on the bins.
I mostly work on classic Minis, so the variety of fasteners I need is pretty limited, and having new, clean, properly made nuts and bolts really makes a project easier when you can walk over to the bin and get exactly the size or length you need for any job. I used to spend endless hours cleaning, de-greasing and de-rusting old used nuts and bolts - I decided my time is worth more than that so now I only use new fasteners unless it's something OEM than's an unusual size or style that I can't easily get.
Here's a pic of my solution.....this is an A-Frame style cart that's on casters.....bins on both sides. The bin boxes tip out or can be lifted right out of the frame, the box forms the lid and they stay clean.
This place is local to me in Ohio, but they do have online order or just call. They have just about anything you need and are usually cheaper than McMaster.
Not answering the OP's question but interestingly my employer, in the years before the pandemic when I actually worked in an office collocated with their manufacturing facility, actually calculated somehow that it was more cost effective to sweep a grade-5 or even 8 up with a push broom and put it in the scrap bin than to restock it. They would sell the scrap bin to a local junk king monthly by the pound. However, nobody seemed to mind me taking as much hardware as I could fit into my computer bag. Several years of dumpster diving and I've collected hundreds of pounds of good fasteners and a lot of smaller sheet metal brackets that can be cut up and repurposed.
And that was the second place I worked that did that. So there must be something to it.
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