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Originally Posted by sanddrag
As a general note, McMaster Carr has a great selection of good-quality screws, at pretty fair prices. You're much better off figuring out what you need and ordering from there, than trying to piece it together with the garbage sold at Home Depot.
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In addition teams may want to check out their local Fastenal store. Fastenal stores are everywhere and carry just about every type of nut and bolt imaginable along with just about everything else you could ever need in an industrial hardware type store. They can be a bit expensive if you pay what they are asking, however, over the years our team has developed a nice relationship with our local Fastenal store and they give us a large (at or close to their cost or sometimes even free) nuts and bolts and even materials including aluminum extrusions. We consider Fastenal to be a valuable team sponsor and for their generosity we, of course, are happy to plaster their name and logo on everything we have like our team shirts and the robot. I agree with sanddrag, skip the cheapo low quality nuts and bolts at Home Depot and go for the higher quality and better selection at places like McMaster Carr and Fastenal.