On Thursday, April 4, 2019 at 11:57:48 AM UTC-4, wrote:
On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 09:37:05 -0500, Mark Lloyd
wrote:

On 4/3/19 12:45 PM, wrote:

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For a motor cap, I would go to a motor shop if Ace didn't have it.
They do have some motor parts like caps and brushes if the associate
can find them. At mine, they are in the power tool area in a little
cabinet

It would be nice if there was still an Ace here. It didn't last very
long after Lowe's came to town (the other local hardware store is gone too).

Ace is giving Blowes and Home Despot a run here, simply by providing
old time hardware store service and a better product line.
When my wife was running a gated community and country club she used
Ace all the time because you could walk in holding something and the
Ace guy would take you to the place where they had what you need,
explain what you needed and even give you a tip or two about
installing it.

That's what they do here and it's why I prefer Lowes or HD instead.
You come in, don't need help, but the village idiot comes running
right over and asks if he can help you. So, you say that you need
a round head wood screw. He then starts asking what you're doing,
why you need it, yadda, yadda, yadda. Meanwhile, he's a moron.
I came in one day asking if they had a simple pressure gauge for
a water pump system. The village idiot starts telling me how normal
water pressure in a water system is just a few lbs and he knows, because
he works on the water works at the schools. I go to HD they have
the gauge, without the village idiot.



At the big boxes you are lucky to even find a person
who works there and they might not even know what you were holding.
If I want building materials I go to HD, If I am looking for home
decor, it is Lowes and Ace is the place for hardware.

And then there are the idiot customers who show up at HD on the rare
occasion that I need help. They have the store guy tied up, with
nonsense. Husband standing there with a bathroom sink faucet handle
in his hand, wanting a washer. Store guy keeps saying, if you have
the stem, which you need to take out anyway, then I could match it.
After 5 mins of who's on first with that BS, just when you think it's
over, then the wife starts in all over again saying they have an
outside faucet that is leaking, can that be fixed?