needed: real hardware store

[bratling.livejournal.com]

can anyone recommend a real hardware store in the area? the sort of place that stocks parts for lawnmower engines, that sort of thing. i need some fuel line for a motorcycle; the dealers can't help me, and auto parts stores carry only high-pressure fuel line in sizes too small or too large for this application, or vacuum hoses too small.

i'm basically looking for a good old fashioned hardware store that carries a bit of everything. Tags and Economy Hardware don't have what i'm looking for.

any suggestions would be appreciated! :)

John Digweed - Medway/My Release - Global Underground 019: John Digweed - Los Angeles

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[marphod.livejournal.com]

The only true, non-chain hardware store in the area that I know of is Masse's hardware, at Walden and Sherman Sts, in Cambridge.

[sonofabish.livejournal.com]

There's a pretty decent hardware store in the Star Market mall in Porter Square. I go there for odd sundry bits of hardware for various projects. They might be able to help you out as well.

[obra.livejournal.com]

That's Tags

[bratling.livejournal.com]

tried them -- no luck. thank you though!

[wisdom-seeker.livejournal.com]

Did you check the basement?

[bratling.livejournal.com]

yup! first place i headed.

to my great surprise, i found what i needed at the Autozone in medford on my way to the supermarket. i figured it couldn't hurt to check, even though they couldn't help me last time. and whaddayaknow, they had it! :-)

[bluepapercup]

Hillside Hardware on the corner of Boston Ave and Curtis St. in Medford. It's right on the 96 busline. They're great. Over the years they've sold me all sorts of weird things. Once I bought just the handle for a plunger (I still had the bottom). You tell them what you need and they'll go off and forage in the (very tall, wonderfully overstuffed) racks for what you need.

Give 'em a call.

[cold-cold-water.livejournal.com]

perhaps inman hardware? they're fairly old-fashioned and have a good variety of things (plus they take credit cards with no minimum, which is always nice).

[talonvaki.livejournal.com]

There's one Downtown on High Street (across Purchase from South Station)...I love this place. It's tiny and old and has been there forever while buildings have grown around it.

There's also old-timey hardware stores on Mass Ave in Central Square and either Cambridge or Hamsphire in Inman Square.

Although, to be honest, your best bet for lawnmower parts is probably out in the 'burbs, where there are more actual lawns...

[darthcr1.livejournal.com]

I was going to suggest Hillside in Medford, but I'll just toss my recommendation for them on to the pile.