Got a good Ali supplier for heat shrink?
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Various ones.
I just reordered 5mm, 6mm, 7mm, 10mm, 13mm, 16mm, and clear 190mm heatshrink but that’s because those were the specfic sizes I was low on / out of.
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@ZachTetra you just buy all the clear heatshrink and start selling those too. You’d be our sole supplier of the 30mm and clear heatshrink which you can sell by the mm
Beats amazon prices and beats ali shipping
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McMaster-Carr has a great selection of 10-32 skate hardware for trucks in any length or head shape you desire. Part number 91255A278 is my most often used truck hardware along with the nyloc nuts 90631A411
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If it’s something I use regularly, I’ll get a big variety pack from amazon, ebay, etc.
If it’s something I don’t often use or need immediately, I go to Ace hardware.
Fastenal if they’re local have a good selection too.
McMaster is pricey but quality and delivers stupidly quick (to me at least). I don’t think I’ve ever not gotten it the next day.
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Haha I’m honestly not opposed to that
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What are the popular sizes?
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It’s a little tricky because I’m assuming only battery builders use large quantities of heat shrink. And if they do, probably only maybe half a meter for one battery or so. Which would make your turnover rate kinda slow. But a couple days ago, it would have been great to be able to buy just 2 feet of 190mm clear instead of having to go to Amazon and buy 3meters of NOT CLEAR and I just found out they pushed back the delivery date from today to Wednesday so what the fuck
I digress. I’d say 180mm is the most popular for single stack battery packs. And I think 220mm for double stack?
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I mean that’s fair, I’ll ask in the battery thread then
much safer to have 1m or at least 75cm, highly depends on the battery though, obviously
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Menards is awesome for small quantities of random metric stuff, never had anything I couldn’t find there.
Only in the Midwest thou 
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Bolt Depot for sure. I have compared pricing of fasteners to many other retailers and they’re the best and they ship super fast.
If you’re buying a lot, go to a local supplier. The prices are great and there’s no shipping.
I wouldn’t trust China aliexpress fasteners for anything critical, just sayin.
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Was just at Menards and they have almost zero metric stuff. World Wide Web for the win 
They don’t even carry a 3mm hex key.
They do however, have any FUB stuff you could ever possibly desire. Probably even a 31/64" FUB hex key
Also in Midwest.
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I’ve used Albany county fasteners for a long time.
They have kits and will put together custom kits for you. They’ve come through several times when I was having a tough time finding what I needed anywhere else.
They’re shipping has been fast and customer service has been great.
I’m a big fan if you can’t tell 
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Must be a shrunk-down inner city one 
Nah, it was way out in the 'burbs and had two levels.
Other places around here don’t have jack shit either when it comes to metric. You can’t even get a tape measure without using the internet… at least not a real tape measure with centimetres and inches on it.
Just buying metric stuff in country with metric system 
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I’ve used monster bolts. Great prices and fast shipping!
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Cole Hardware in San Fran is a treasure cavern. Lots of bolts, screws, washers, nuts and hardware from multiple vendors in both metric or imperial. You cannot get it wrong there.
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