Thread: Bunnies selling galvanised nuts

I dont see what the fuss is about. if buy nuts its usually roasted and salted cashews or macadamias. they are both compatible with a cold beer and if anyone galvanises them i wont buy them anyway. and i wont buy them at bummings either.

A routine inspection was being made of a large mental hospital. Patients were being pointed out by the doctor and their conditions described: "This gentleman thinks he's Napoleon, that one thinks he's a teapot", etc. Suddenly they're confronted by a man with his trousers down, pleasuring himself with a handful of cashews.

What about this poor bloke?" asked the inspector, "Delusional as well?"

"No," replied the doctor, "he's just plain f%&$ing nuts..."

His brother was in the same mental institution and had a habit of dragging a length of chain around the yard. When asked why he did so, he responded "Have you ever tried to push the bloody thing".
Jim

Originally Posted by Rusty

"This gentleman thinks he's Napoleon, that one thinks he's a teapot", etc.

Further intothe rounds they encountered a gentleman who said he was Adolph Hitler. the visitor asked the man whyhe thought he was Adolph Hitler. he replied "God told me im Adolph Hitler".

a voice came from the next room "NO I DIDNT"

Another nutter was sitting in the middle of the lawn with a fishing rod, pretending to fish.

An amused visitor to the institution approached him and asked "Caught anything today?"

"You're the first" came the reply.


Cheers...................Sean

Originally Posted by zathras

Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't galvanising a hot dipped zinc coating ?

Are the clean finished nuts really zinc or are they nickel plated?

If they are zinc plated, why are they not as good as hot dipped?
Zinc is zinc in my book.

I'd understand if they are in fact nickel coated.....

Ray,
the shiny silver coating is electroplated zinc. This is a far thinner coating than hot dip gal and is vastly inferior. Furthermore gal bolts won't fit into zinc nuts, even if they're the same thread diameter and pitch. Gal threads are cut with a lot of free play which is taken up by the thickness of the gal coating. You'll fit a zinc bolt into a gal nut but you'll struggle to do the reverse. There's also shiny gold coating ("climaseal" a cadmium based plating)which is way better than zinc but not quite as good as gal.

Mick

Originally Posted by scooter

Another nutter was sitting in the middle of the lawn with a fishing rod, pretending to fish.

An amused visitor to the institution approached him and asked "Caught anything today?"

"You're the first" came the reply.


Cheers...................Sean

ok so who's gonna do the one about cockroaches hearing with their legs?

I ran into the metric nuts and imperial bolts problem about 12 months ago. it is not a Bunnings problem but an industry wide problem within hardware retail and manufacturing. I gave up and used stainless, which, if you buy at specialised fastener suppliers are far better and not a lot more expensive. The only problem with SS is they are a fair bit softer and if using the screws as I also did you must be careful. I recently put about 2,500 screws in a deck and they were not overly expensive and look good.

Then there was the big naked negro with a bowl of custard......................no, better not go there

Originally Posted by Sturdee

I understand it is based on your Home Depot. Even the colour scheme of red and green is the same. The episode of the Apprentice that was filmed in your HD looked just like our Bunnings.:eek:


Peter.

And heaven help us they all draw from the same labour pool.

Originally Posted by Lignum

Bunnings has been going for over a hundred years and publicly listed in 1952, Home Depot acording to Wikipedia was founded in 1979, so they must have copied us

So you're to blame!

I don't know about all bunnings but the 1 down here sells metric and imperial gal nuts, By the way i buy mine direct from AJAX FASTENERS (spurways) who are the largest suppliers of gal nuts & bolts.
As i don't have any other choices of hardware stores being rural so i go direct & save $$$$$

Sir Stinkalot,

Call me a newbie, but IMHO it's not just your Bunnings and it's not just Bunnings either. The old specialist supplier Primrose Hill Timber in Sydney used to do the same (as does Home Hardware). But they used to (I think) sell gal bolts in M sizes. And often the gal washers they sold wouldn't fit over the gal bolts. Go figure! The old shifter gets a workout as a result.

As for Sturdee's post... musta got him on a bad day (they get lots of them in Vic). If I bought what looked like Barramundi at a fish shop and got home to find it was Vietnamese catfish (which looks the same) I'd be writing about it, but probably not here.

As for the difference between a supermarket chain selling hardware and a hardware shop, I think the relevance is lost from your point. I don't think we're asking too much for the nut bucket to be stocked with only M or Imperial nuts - a mix doesn't really help anybody. Given two other hardware shops I frequent do the same says it's probably not a retailer issue.

Sounds like I'll see you around in Bunnings one day. Not necessarily by choice, but because now there often isn't one. I too part with a lot of hard-earned cash, maybe more than you because my local one is open until 6pm on Sundays. Service might be poor at times, but the opening times show they understand at least something about their customers habits.

PS. Bit young for a Sir, aren't you? [Or is this an old joke I've missed?]

Originally Posted by rrich

And heaven help us they all draw from the same labour pool.

Well, its not that bad...I can walk into a HD, Lowes, Builder's Box over there and feel right at home. The real difference is that Bunnings carries fewer good tools, and crap hardware. The last time I was in a HD I was able to buy Maglite, Baldwin Brass, Senco, Bessey K-body and Ralph Lauren paint. There are no similar quality brands sold in Bunnings here (based on my last several visits)

Greg