Source for small parts

[Dave Plowman (News)]

My local one does have 'assorted sizes' boxes of things like this - a bit like Screwfix.

[D.M. Procida]

When I use a .signature, as in the post you just quoted, I use a signature separator. When I don't use a .signature, I don't.

My name isn't my signature. It's my name.

Daniele

[Dave Liquorice]

But what quality? Maplin were always at the lower end of the quality range for this sort of thing. Bit like using WD40 instead of the correct lubricant or penetrating oil. B-)

[Huge]

In this context, "signature" means something special - the fixed text you always append to a post. And it's considered polite to seperate it from the post with a special string "-- " (the space is significant) so people's newsreaders can automatically remove it.

[D.M. Procida]

Yes, I know what a signature is and how it works. But I don't always use a signature. My name is not part of my signature, and doesn't belong in it, even when I have one.

While we're wallowing in egg-sucking territory, you might like to set your news client to wrap text to a more convenient-for-other-people 72 columns.

Daniele

[Dave Plowman (News)]

IIRC, they were branded with one of those distributor names like BlackSpur, Draper, etc - so likely to be variable in quality.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Err, isn't that just what a sig is? Many, of course, add extra information. But you don't have to.

FWIW, my newsreader allows you to create an individual sig for each and every newsgroup you subscribe to. So I could have just 'dave' if I wanted.

Looks fine here.

[Jon Fairbairn]

are good for small quantities of stainless steel fasteners. They seem to be quite happy to put a couple each of machine screws, nuts and washers in ziploc bags in a jiffy bag and post them. IIRC the postage charges are sensible too. Better than having your house fill up with boxes containing 98 spares of some odd size of screw that you only need to replace once in a hundred years...

[Huge]

Suit yourself.

*plonk*

[geoff]

In message , Huge writes

yeah - fuckim

[geoff]

It might be for Hyacinth, but personally, if I'm in the middle of a job, I want to get it finished, not wait three days for something that you may or may not be able to source online

I maintain a comprehensive stock of nuts screws washers and bolts (and other punchlines) at work, but there's always something that needs a non-standard component, so I salvage such bits when throwing equipment out

[Owain]

I suppose from one point of view your name *is* your signature :-)

Personally I think a name in the message is fine, anything longer should be sigsepped.

Owain

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember [e-mail] (D.M. Procida) saying something like:

In terms of what might be nearest and most convenient to you - find a decent motor factors, not a Halfords or Johhny-go-brightly shop, a factors that sells proper bits for owners to fettle their cars with brake pads, suspension bits, bushes, oils, paints, etc. They will have assortment boxes they can fish about in for you.