Parkrose Hardware

This is an amazing Ace Hardware store. It’s collection of specialized nuts, bolts, fasteners etc. is what makes this store such a gem. If you need a nut or bolt that you can’t find anywhere, look here! The staff is friendly and very helpful too. I was able to get help on the phone before making the hour and a half drive.

I love hardware stores; not to be confused with home improvement stores. A good hardware store carries every diameter, pitch, and type of screw you can imagine — and in every conceivable material. They sell bar stock, tube stock, sheet metal, and angle iron. They sell hardware to repair lamps, doors, window, and faucets. They sell wire, cables, ropes, chain, bearings, trunnions, pillow blocks, winches, keys and lock, etc.
A really good hardware store — and I’ve only seen one — carries hardware that matches the time that the surrounding neighborhood was built. You walk in with a broken thing you just pulled out of the attic of your 1912 bungalow and ask: «got one of these?», and the guy says, aisle five; on the left.
Parkrose is pretty close to the perfect hardware store. I had a bicycle headlight that came off the bike because a little Chinese machine screw broke. Now this screw was stainless steel, with a very small fine metric thread, had a shoulder like a lag screw and a head that was designed to slip into a counterbore. Parkrose had one of those.
I love this place!