On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 07:54:09 -0700, Smitty Two
wrote:

In article ,
Nate Nagel wrote:

I've pretty much given up on finding any
metric stainless hardware locally

Really? If you live in a city large enough to support a half dozen
machine shops, I'd be surprised if there wasn't a tool and hardware
store dedicated to serving them. It'll be on a dead-end side street in
the industrial part of town. They'll have 100 or 1000 times the hardware
that your average big box has, but of course you'll have to go talk to
the guy at the counter to get it, because it won't be in little plastic
bags hanging on a customer-accessible pegboard.


I have found a useful inventory of stainless hardware at my local Ace
Hardware store, including metric. Then there are all those marine
chandeleries...