Originally Posted by
HillRider
I'm not surprised you have to go to an LBS shop for bicycle related items.
I'm amazed you were even able to find an M10x1.0 nut at a big box home store.
...it turns out the most Home Depot stores of some size now have a rather large
assortment of metric fasteners in a separate cabinet of slideout drawers.
I was amazed when I first discovered it, and have found a great many machine
screws and nuts that are usable on my more modern metric standard bicycles.
They generally go from about an M4 to M10 in sizes, FWIW. Not all threadings
are represented, but the common ones are.
As you might suspect, it often requires some digging, and a lot of the stuff
has been rearranged into the wrong place. Still worth the trip.