Discounted OEM bolts or companies selling better replacements?

[mechanicalmoron]

Originally Posted by dawagarage

if you can, try to find a local industrial hardware store near you.

not the regular home improvement hardware stores, but a store
that stocks just about every single bolt that there is, sells em singularly, or in a pack (of 50-100 depending) for a discount.

my store stocked grade 8.8 fasteners and they were only a few cents a piece.

those places a great to have in your arsenal in case you dont have time to wait for a package in the mail

(edit: kinda like fastenal previously mentioned, except my local bolt store was even more affordable than them)

I could be wrong, but I think grade 8 is the best (or one of the strongest) us grades, but for metric the equivalent is 10.9 or 12.something, and 8.8 is sort of shitty.