I arrived on the site at lunch time on Wed. I worked for 5 hours that day bolting the wall brackets up. I would have worked later, but I had to go to Home Depot for longer bolts (which I believe I mentioned they didn't have). The next morning I got geared up about 8:30 and did the rest. I worked straight through until 5:30. I did stop once about 2:30 to change shirts because I was sweating so bad, my shirt looked like I had worn it in the shower. At 5:30 I got a shower, loaded my stuff up and drove 5 hours home.

Gee, and recently someone told me I had no right to be upset* that I could not find drawings of a particular TV model.


Never forget the also-rants! Of course, they'll make your posts unacceptably long....


I said you can't just go buy packs of them, unless a bag of four is a "pack." When I assembled my toggler kits, I bought bolts by the hundreds. Industrial supply companies you can walk into will laugh at you if you ask for hundreds of metric bolts.


Brad, yeah, that sure does sound like he said he got all of them done in one day.




*Or something like that

Even with having some of the work done the following day, still pretty quick (much quicker than me). Just not super impressed now LOL!

I've been saving bolts, spacers and washers for 10 years from mount kits. It's gotten to the point that I throw them away now, I always seem to have the right crap to make a mount work, but for 15 tvs to be Kustomized, not sure if I have the stock.

It's worth it to have a piece of 1/2" pvc and conduit cutters on hand

Ever hear of Fastenal?

[Link: fastenal.com]:^Metric$|~

They have five stores in the Los Angeles area and others around the country.

Yes. I located my closest store, in Long Beach, and searched for metric machine screws. The first result I got was

Based on my experience I'll say that's a not uncommon size. I don't know Fastenal's criteria for putting a product as first in a search result, but it seems maybe they also don't think it's an unusual product.

I said there's no place I can walk into and buy these by the hundreds. Here's the status on this product at Fastenal:

In other words, I cannot walk into Fastenal and buy any quantities AT ALL of this bolt. That's exactly what I said.

Torrance Industrial Hardware and Culver City Industrial Hardware, related stores, are where I go for my metrics in bulk. And bulk always means counting them out from the sometimes random collection they have in stock.