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   IMERC | Dec 31, 2003 09:46am | #1

   Local.. Least amount of effort.

    

   Who ever invented work didn't know how to fish....

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   calvin | Dec 31, 2003 02:16pm | #2

   Local. 

   And remember, when local becomes unavailable (pushed out by online and bigbox stores) and you need nails now, you could be screwed.  Support your local business's.  They'll probably have knockoffs, but I usually by the OM.

   Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.

   Quittin' Time

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   brownbagg | Dec 31, 2003 03:42pm | #3

   shipping would kill you due to weight

   The best employee you can have but you wouldn't want him as a neighbor " He the shifty type"

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   JohnSprung | Dec 31, 2003 10:50pm | #4

   I had stainless nails shipped from Swan.  But shipping only makes sense for things like that, that you can't get locally.

   -- J.S.

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   caseyr | Dec 31, 2003 11:49pm | #5

   I had to order some specialty stables that were unobtainable locally.  The cost of the staples on-line was $16, the shipping was $18. 

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   ahneedhelp | Jan 01, 2004 01:19am | #6

   re - I had stainless nails shipped from Swan.

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   Swan is good.

   Free shipping last time I bought collated ring shank stainless nails.

   And they stock the stuff, unlike some other suppliers.

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   fdampier5 | Jan 01, 2004 01:23am | #7

   Amazon.com

     (the old tool shed of the North)  they sell nails cheap enough that I can ship them to me and still save money.. occasonally they have free shipping deals and then I go nuts..

         If you have an acount with a local supplier you might get a good enough deal to shop locally but to me, if they charge me more than someone else they are saying they really don't want my business,  Tool crib does..

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   Sphere | Jan 01, 2004 01:47am | #8

   I thought that I heard somewhere nails can't go by air shipping? Any info?..I buy local always..never gave it any thought.

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   ccal | Jan 01, 2004 03:32am | #9

   At one time paslode packed a couple of fuel cells with their nails for the cordless guns so those couldnt be shipped by air. I dont see why regular nails couldnt be air shipped although it might be expensive.

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   Sphere | Jan 01, 2004 04:13pm | #10

   Sounds right. Maybe thats what I read. Happy New Year.

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   briank | Jan 03, 2004 09:11am | #11

     I would definitely only order specialty nails online--there has to be a local supplier that can order nails for your Senco if they don't stock them.  The Hitachi 16g nails work in the senco, and I think the Porter-Cable brads work in the smaller guns.  Senco makes so many types that you are better off asking your supplier if he has a compatibility chart, and then go from there.  Unless someone like Amazon will ship for free, the shipping will be as much or more than the nails (especially framers).

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   gdavis62 | Jan 03, 2004 07:06pm | #12

   Nails you can ship.  But not box cutters.  No one has tried, in my town, to rob a liquor store, or hijack a charter flight, with a Paslode cordless framer.

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   IMERC | Jan 04, 2004 12:55am | #13

   Please don't give any ideas... The next thing you know there'll be a ton of FFL paper work and not to mention the waiting / cooling off period. 

   Who ever invented work didn't know how to fish....

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   andybuildz | Jan 04, 2004 01:57am | #15

   IMERC

          Anyones that crazy enough to buy nails via mail probably buys concrete block that way too.........heyyyyy...I have a bridge to sell....even an aircraft carrier : )

   Be Ebay and dumb as a can O paint (latex of course.the four coat kind)

             andy

   My life is my practice!

   http://CLIFFORDRENOVATIONS.COM

   Edited 1/3/2004 5:58:21 PM ET by Andy Clifford(Andybuildz)

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   andybuildz | Jan 04, 2004 01:53am | #14

   local

   My life is my practice!

   http://CLIFFORDRENOVATIONS.COM