DrmstrSpoodle - Buy bolts in bulk the time saved from taking them off old parts (and knowing you have NEW ONES) is well worth it. Here I can get a bolt in bulk (by the lb) for say .21/each at Ace or Home Depot it would be about .80 or so... I have $ in bolts buying in bulk.

But like you guys I do take parts off things I want too smile

I just tossed a treadmill and had no time to take the motors from it frown They would have been AWESOME for shop equipment, etc, but no time and to big to store right now. DOH.

There are recycling companies that do this too, gov. funded, and they make a profit selling "good" parts from the bad, and then the scrap steel recycling etc.

A lot of ways to make money$$
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