price of washers

ed · Post by ed » Wed Nov 05, 2008 5:16 pm

I've just been to the local diy/hardware shop and bought some washers for M5 nuts and bolts...

standard washers, about 1/2 inch(12mm) with 5 or 6mm hole, nothing special!!!

36 of them for £1.08

now these things are way smaller than a penny(1p)...since when has it been cheaper to drill a hole in 1p than to go and buy a washer?????

am I getting too old?(rhetorical)

sassnfrassn cussin claudehopper!!!

Ed

Darren · Post by **Darren** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 5:28 pm

Since today by the sound of it

Graeme · Post by **Graeme** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 7:01 pm

Your buying your washers from the wrong place me thinks.

david C · Post by **david C** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 10:14 pm

I can still beat it with my 2 washers for 4 pounds from SME

Greg · Post by **Greg** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 10:27 pm

Seek out a quality fixings supplier and buy a box of washers (100's) for a few quid. It'll last you the rest of your life and your children beyond

Dave the bass · Post by **Dave the bass** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 9:29 am

£549 inc VAT but a 5 year warranty included.
http://www.appliancecity.co.uk/Product/ ... oogleBase/

Hope that helps

DTB

andrew Ivimey · Post by **andrew Ivimey** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 9:55 am

yeah it probably helps, just not too much.

I'm going to use 1p pieces!

Darren · Post by **Darren** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 10:28 am

david C wrote:I can still beat it with my 2 washers for 4 pounds from SME

Eh?
And what on earth were these at £2 each?

ed · Post by ed » Thu Nov 06, 2008 10:37 am

andrew Ivimey wrote:
I'm going to use 1p pieces!

yeah, me tooo!...

but its really come to something when you have to use a 2p to make a penny washer.........

now thats inflation!

Dave the bass · Post by **Dave the bass** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 10:50 am

Pumping up a tyre.

That's inflation too.

You've all got a whole weekend of this ahead of you y'know

Betcha can't wait..can ye....can ye....can ye...

DTB

pre65 · Post by **pre65** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 10:51 am

Was not the defacing of coins once treated as Treason ?

http://www.24carat.co.uk/defacingcoinsframe.html

Off with his head !

Darren · Post by **Darren** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 11:53 am

A meter of 16mm brass (can't find copper but it will be dearer)
(I'm guessing the size of a 1p coin as I don't have one !!)
costs around £35.

Say a penny is 3mm thick?
(guessing again, but will be close enough)

You would get 333.333333333 pennies to the meter,

Value of pennies £3.33, value of brass £35.00

Time to start weighing in those pennies methinks, cept it's illegal.

Darren · Post by **Darren** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 12:25 pm

Just in case someone pipes in with pennies are not pure copper..

Even mild steel is now around £8-10 a meter. Metal doesn't come much cheaper than that.

Dave the bass · Post by **Dave the bass** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 12:27 pm

Darren wrote: Even mild steel is now around £8-10 a meter. Metal doesn't come much cheaper than that.

Bloomin' does.

Some Pikey's nicked our copper overflow pipe from our CH heating system, they got that fer nowt!

DTB

ed · Post by ed » Thu Nov 06, 2008 12:33 pm

Darren wrote:A meter of 16mm brass (can't find copper but it will be dearer)
(I'm guessing the size of a 1p coin as I don't have one !!)
costs around £35.

Say a penny is 3mm thick?
(guessing again, but will be close enough)

You would get 333.333333333 pennies to the meter,

Value of pennies £3.33, value of brass £35.00

Time to start weighing in those pennies methinks, cept it's illegal.

mmmmmm what you cuttin those pennies with Darren,? cos I want one. Your cutter has a kerf of zero...

back to reality, means the mint is running at a colossal loss, unless the bank of england pays them about 4p for every 1p minted....go figure

Ed

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