Subject: Re: Retail metal/hardware suppliers in Vancouver BC?

From: Tom Carlson <[email-masked]>
Date: 15 Sep 96 17:32:17 GMT

some places i have found that are very helpful in small quantity 
purchases of fasteners and metal are pacific fasteners ltd 3934 
east 1st ave burnaby.... they even have a small cash sale only 
desk.... lots of fasteners and rod.....for metal i usually go to 
the metal mart in langley  113-20120-64th avenue ... it is a 
division of civic tool & die works ltd... if he does not have it 
he will get it for you and "reasonable" small retail prices... in 
a pinch you can try airarms fasteners on 76th in surrey but they 
are trying real hard to get away from anything "retail"...

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From: [email-masked] (Tim Shoppa)
Date: 13 Sep 1996 16:30:45 GMT

Anyone care to recommend any retail metal/hardware suppliers in
Vancouver BC?  At the moment, what I need is some 17/64" drill
rod, a 20-foot length of CRS angle (1.5 x 1.5 x 3/16"),
and a couple dozen metric socket screws.  I'm met by blank
stares in the retail hardware stores I've asked in, and the local
industrial-sort suppliers won't talk to me unless I'm ordering
hundreds of dollars worth of stuff.  I know of a half-dozen
places in the US that'll mail me the stuff, but I'd end up paying
much more in shipping and customs fees than the material is worth.
(Shipping 20-foot lengths of angle stock is particularly not a good 
idea.)  Any recommendations?

Tim. ([email-masked])

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From: [email-masked] (Jens)
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 14:08:11 -0700

[email-masked] (Tim Shoppa) wrote:

>Vancouver BC? 

You are asking for three seperate suppliers here ...

First of all as far as hardware stores are concerned, you can't do
better than Home Depot.

> At the moment, what I need is some 17/64" drill
>rod

AJ Foresyth or Wilkinson steel (probably the first)

A 20-foot length of CRS angle (1.5 x 1.5 x 3/16"),

As above (btw, Wilkinson has a minimum order of $50 but you are
probably there with the angle)

>and a couple dozen metric socket screws. ]

Acklands

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From: [email-masked] (Mark Fraser)
Date: 18 Sep 1996 19:58:28 GMT

RUSTAN is presumably the best of the small quantity metal suppliers
in Vancouver.  I'm happy there, the Guy [bad pun] who writes the
Machinist's Bedside Reader series is happy there, and they have
what I want when I drop in.

/mark

Tom Carlson ([email-masked]) wrote:
: some places i have found that are very helpful in small quantity 
: purchases of fasteners and metal are pacific fasteners ltd 3934 
: east 1st ave burnaby.... they even have a small cash sale only 
: desk.... lots of fasteners and rod.....for metal i usually go to 
: the metal mart in langley  113-20120-64th avenue ... it is a 
: division of civic tool & die works ltd... if he does not have it 
: he will get it for you and "reasonable" small retail prices... in 
: a pinch you can try airarms fasteners on 76th in surrey but they 
: are trying real hard to get away from anything "retail"...

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From: [email-masked] (Tim Shoppa)
Date: 14 Sep 1996 05:16:40 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
>You are asking for three seperate suppliers here ...

Maybe.  But most of the places I've lived in the US had a nearby
"full-line" hardware store that would stock all of the items
I mentioned.

>First of all as far as hardware stores are concerned, you can't do

Gack!  That's not a hardware store - that's a home improvement
center!  In my opinion, there is a difference.  Of course, in
my opinion, a "hardware store" is where you walk up to the
counter, tell they guy you need a half-dozen #264 Viton O-rings,
a M12x1.75 tap, and some #6-32 x 1" nylon screws
phillips head, and he goes back through the stock and gets
what you need.  At Home Depot they had *no* O-rings larger
than 1.5" in diameter, no metric taps, and no nylon hardware.
A "real" hardware store would have these.  Perhaps I was spoiled
by living just a couple blocks away from Berg's hardware while
I was in Pasadena!

The rest of your suggestions - AJ Forsyth, Wilkinson Steel,
and Acklands - are appreciated.  I'll give them a try (though
I kind of doubt I'll find any of them open on a weekend - or
will I?)

Tim. ([email-masked])

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From: [email-masked] (dal wagner)
Date: 18 Sep 1996 19:35:10 GMT

>idea.)  Any recommendations?

You might try Paine Hardware in North Vancouver.

They are the only hardware store that I know of where you can still get
oil lamps, snowshoes and gold panning dishes etc. The nails still come in 
barrels and if you want you can purchase three 6-32x1/4 long brass machine
screws and two number 10 washers without having to buy one of those
blister packs holding 300 of these screws for $30.00.
You can also buy quantity and their prices are usually lower than most 
wholesale places.
They still have the original oil soaked wooden floors with the ceiling
high ladders that roll the length of the store. If your into 
construction and have a licence you can pick up your explosives there at 
the same time you pick up a piece of threaded rod to boot.
Down in the basement they'll let you cut your own piece of angle iron,
saw off 22 ft of 1/2" pipe and pick up a single 90 degree 3/4 pipe elbow
complete with reducer bushings.
Burrard shipyard, when thet were in buisiness, always came to them for 
odds and ends when they could't find things at other stores.
The telephone number for their Industrial hardware is 987-6722
Address is 90 Lonsdale.

No I don't work for them.

Regards

Dal Wagner, West Vancouver