Unrelated, if Ace Hardware ever stops carrying all the odd size and type setscrews, nuts, bolts and screws, they'll lose me and a bunch of other people as customers.
Yes, you can order them; usually in a bag of 25 or 50 when you need one or two. No, Ace, keep it up, you've saved my ass looking for some odd-size piece I needed.
Yes, you can order them; usually in a bag of 25 or 50 when you need one or two. No, Ace, keep it up, you've saved my ass looking for some odd-size piece I needed.
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There was a store OL Scheer, that had everything and I do mean everything. From bolts and nuts to handles for wheelbarrows to pumps for septic tanks to welding supplies and on and on and on. The nephews of OL morphed it into an Ace Hardware with greatly reduced inventory but still good but they couldn't compete with the Menards store five blocks away and finally closed. I hate having to go to Menards but the local Bomgaars doesn't carry near the amount of hardware and the local Fastenal opens at 9 AM and closes at 3 PM so they lost my business. It's hard to find all the small hardware I need at times for my shop and I really miss the adventure of going in to the OL Scheer building where I had to pull one light chain and then another and then go back down the aisle and shutoff the first one since having three lights on at a time would blow one of the two fuses in the entire store.
If I need one I'll buy a box or a bag as long as I have the money. The trip to the store for a piece of hardware is expensive in the time it takes.
And yes, I agree about Ace hardware and the wide selection!
Menard's has a large selection also.
Actually I like buying the 50/100 count boxes, use two or three, forget where I put it, buy another box and find the first box when I go to put up the second box.
But, really, I also love my local Ace hardware. The value added is worth the price.
Mike
I shop at our local Ace whenever I can - just to keep them in business to provide those odd pieces of hardware.
I love the Ace assorted fasteners bins too. So many things I have been able to fix with a little browsing or by asking the staff.
Ed
Paul, sounds halfway like an old store in my Dad's hometown.
I had an auto repair shop where I had to buy in large quantities and I needed lots of different nuts and bolts and when I needed them I needed them now. No time to run to a store. Only problem is that I closed the business but kept the hardware.
On the bright side I rarely have to go to Ace for hardware.
But, storing several hundred pounds of hardware is a pain.
Years back when I had to move, I had an old steel toolbox that was FULL of screws, nuts, and bolts. That went when an old guy saw it and bought it all.
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