A friend, Don, flies for Jet Blue and was able to get a 30 hour layover so Sunday I decided to take (driving an S10... Chevy truck that is) him to some favorite places in this area. We went to breakfast at Putah Creek Cafe in Winters CA. Afterwards went for a walk in this smaller city. A few doors down was a hardware store. I almost walked past it, twice. Went inside and asked if they had metric nuts and bolts. Two employees took us all the way to the back of the store where there was this very large display of fasteners. They had the zinc plated nuts, zinc plated washers, and Nyloks but did not have the bolts that were fully threaded 8( They said there other store had more than they did 8) Later that day we went to Vacaville CA and sure enough they had maybe 25% more fasteners. They had one 70mm zinc plated fully threaded bolt and two 80mm zinc plated fully threaded bolts. I bought all three and will cut the two 80mm bolts to fit. Don also found a key-way he needed for the generator on his 1958 Volkswagen. He did not find the the 5mm nut with a 14mm outer. It was a good day.
Pacific Ace Hardware
35 Main Street
Winters, CA 95694
530 795-3368
gino@pacificacehardware.com
Pacific Ace Hardware
627 Merchant Street
Vacaville, CA 95688
707 448-2978