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They’re just artisanal now and for extremely specific purposes:
https://donhoubicycles.com/products/brass-barrel-adjusters
(I have some of these and they’re lovely, so not taking the piss too much…)
slippers
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Had a flashback there that hollow bolts were things my adjacent-engineering dad might tell apprentice people to go to the store for, along with asking for a long weight… or a box of 5/8ths holes
But then I am as old as recalling when things were actually made around here