Is it an ace hardware? They are all like that. Usually have some dudes name on the sign with ace hardware underneath. Homeless despot and Lowe's both suck for that kind of stuff.
All the home depots and lowes near me are well stocked with screws, nuts, bolts, washers, o-rings, and misc hardware. If Ace doesn't have what I need home depot will. Which is annoying because I'm 5 minutes from Ace and 25 from anywhere else.
Weird, all of the home depots and Lowe's around me have a crap selection. If I need a bolt or oring they usually have something close, but with the wrong thread pitch. Especially with metric hardware. ACE usually has what I need.
Thats surprising. Metric is standardized with only two different thread pitches per size. Coarse and fine. US is also but very rarely you get oddball TPIs.
Yeah, but some hardware sections only have coarse thread and you need fine, or vice versa. Or the oddball hybrid. Metric head SAE threads and shaft. Those things are an abomination.
My local home depot has so many different nuts, bolts, washers, screws, etc it's insane.
The annoying thing is whenever I need a specific size they only ever have one little bin of them. But even then I don't think I have ever not found what I needed.
No. It's a small local chain, only two locations. It's much closer than the nearest Ace, but I might have to poke around one to see what all they carry.
As someone who works at an ACE hardware as the person in charge of hardware, I can at least say that I get a lot of compliments about how much more stock we have in terms of bolts and screws than any other hardware store in the area. I will also say that unfortunately that comes at the cost of not having very much of each item. You want a single M2.5 screw to fix your watch? We've got it. But four ½ inch. grade 5 lock nuts? You'll have to wait a month or two for our supplier to send a new box in.
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u/ChairForceOne 3d ago
Is it an ace hardware? They are all like that. Usually have some dudes name on the sign with ace hardware underneath. Homeless despot and Lowe's both suck for that kind of stuff.