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Where can I find cheap restaurant supplies?

Restaurant Spike?

  • When I was a child, the diner my family frequented had a tiny spike by the register where your bill would be impaled after you paid. I'd like the same spike in my home to hold receipts (I have two people using one debit card, eek...) but I can't find it anywhere. I've tried google, restaurant and office supplies sites. I'm a good searcher, but I have the feeling that my inability to find it stems from not knowing what it's called at all. Can anyone help?

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    What a sick, sad, society we live in. Plastic safety cap? I'm taking that thing down to my basement workshop, firing up my bench grinder and putting such a point on there...

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My grandfather had one, in the form of a six-inch nail hammered through a small piece of wood. It's not exactly something you'd need to buy.

Faint of Butt

Spindle. As in do not bend, fold, spindle or mutilate.

zadcat

poking around on google a bit, it seems "spindle files" is slightly more specific.

andrew cooke

(but every google hit seems to be a safety warning!)

andrew cooke

They don't use (maybe don't make) the ones that point straight up any more. People used to occasionally trip and fall on them, killing themselves, or jam it through their hand. The newer style has a U shape at the top.

unrepentanthippie

They have them http://www.staples.com/Catalog/Browse/Sku.asp?PageType=1&Sku=509983, but they're neutured with a plastic safety cap.

smackfu

I have definitely seen them at large office supply stores, like Staples, near the desk accessories.

Savannah

Have you tried froogle. It is Google but for e-commerce sites. http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=spindle+wire

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