We have hardware stores, lumber yards and home inprovement stores here. We just don't have massive inventories of most stuff you don't need and never heard of. If they don't have it, they can get it.
When I walk in a store here they great me and ask me what cannon project I am working on now. The one store hasa bunch of old black iron and square nut hardware in the back warehouse. The just tell me "you know where it is' and let me browse to my hearts content. If I do need something special, they will order it in on the next truck. I could get it cheaper in the big city, but thats a day wasted and a tank of gas to save 4 bucks.
IfI drive to one of these stroes, I might pass 5 or 6 cars on the way, I the people in 4 or 5 of the cars. i wave at them all, they all wave back. If I go the right way I don't even have to go through the stop light if I don't want.
The Recycling place has steel but they let me roam the scrap yard when ever I want. Here's a neat cannon project I found. That material cost me $2.
Since we are in the oilpatch up here we have a lot pump repair places. Southpaw told me about one of the shops that had steel scrap. Here is 115 lbs worth. I went back and got the other 123 pounds. Cost two 12 packs of Bud light.
Six different size cannon ammo in that picture.
I Have lived in the big cities; Houston, Montreal, Durban, Phoenix and Northern Virginia. I have lived in smaller cites like Grants Pass, Medford, Redding and El Paso. None of them hold a candle to small towns like Cut Bank.
Everything I need is here,not always at my fingertips. But is can be.
Southpaw, I get with you on the sander next week and we will get the belly arch in the SAMCC gun. I have to go pick up the steel to make the capsquare stamp tomorrow.
