Wow I got an email from a large ebay store/seller that is moving out some 6V batteries for like $10 to $15 for anything you want almost! $10 shipping seems to be the norm on them too.
Just do a search through their ebay store. I'm sure a lot of you have seen stuff for sale from this seller before.
http://stores.ebay.com/Rusty-Riders-...id=p4340.l2563
I'm glad to see battery prices drop a bit. I live in an area where they price hardware on the shelf like it's solid gold. It's absolutely amazing how much hardware stores have increased their prices OVER list price. It makes all the spare nuts and bold we throw in buckets worth solid gold. I bought a small pail of stainless screws and weird clamps at a garage sale for 75 cents a little while back. The other day I spread it out across the work bench and itemized everything. It was easily $25 worth of screws alone by today's prices.
And grade 8 hardware? Don't even waste your time going to look how much it is. Unless you are in a pinch here just start asking your friends for spare hardware you can look through or just order online- McMaster of course. The tiny CL70 battery at the local battery place would have to be ordered anyways and would be $40 I'm sure. What did we do without the internets? I tell you what I didn't do much besides make some expensive long distance phone calls and then put all my classic projects to the side under a cover!