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Food and Beverages

Collected here.

Electronics

Art Supplies

  • Opus Art Supplies: Cambie & Hastings downtown or Granville Island
  • Michaels: Alberni Street near Burrard Street and Broadway near Cambie. Has almost everything craft-related, but is expensive.
  • DeSerres: Broadway near Granville
  • Rath Art Supplies: Main near Kingsway

Craft Supplies

  • Urban Source: Main Street between 15th and 16th Ave. All kinds of recycled craft materials - everything is cheap!
  • Dressew: 337 W Hastings St, near Cambie - Sewing/fabric/knitting/etc. Huge selection, dirt cheap!
  • Yoko YaYa: Tinseltown Mall, 1st floor. Japanese dollar store with all kinds of neat stuff.
  • Daiso: Aberdeen Mall in Richmond. Same as Yoko Yaya, but about 5 times more stuff.
  • Michaels: Alberni Street near Burrard Street and Broadway near Cambie. Has almost everything craft-related, but is expensive.
  • DeSerres: Broadway near Granville

Hardware

Screws, Fasteners

Bearings

  • Ringball: Mainly bearings, some linear slides and some acme screws and such. Good prices, but $30 minumum order.
  • DealExtreme: Free shipping, probably knockoff bearings.

Metals

  • Metal Supermarket: Two locations: close to Lake City Way skytrain station in Burnaby AND just East of the Knight St Bridge (close to the IKEA) in Richmond. Good source for metal rods, beams, angled, etc. in stainless steel, aluminum and more.
  • North Star Metal: Metal recycling (wander around; just stay clear of the forklifts).
  • P N J Metals Inc: No. 5 Rd and Bridgeport Rd in Richmond
  • Complete Metal Markets: No. 5 Rd and Bridgeport Rd in Richmond
  • MB Superior Metals: Metal recycling (good for wire; ask them to see it). Grant St and Clark Dr, just north of 1st Ave.
  • Esthers Sheet Metal: 3890 East First Ave. Next to Pacific Fasteners. Is a trade supplier that mostly does made to measure flashings for construction. Will cut metal sheet to size and bend as per spec.
  • ABC Metal Recycling: 192 St and 56 Ave in Surrey

Machining and Metalworking

Foundries

Woods

Woodworking

Casting and Mould Making

Costuming and Makeup FX

  • Fiber-tek: Boundary Rd at 1st Ave. Sell Worbla and casting supplies.
  • HollyNorth Production Supply: 1st Ave at Boundary, kind of hard to find. Large range of makeup FX and production supplies.
  • Studio F/X: Georgia St at Hornby St downtown. Enter via the side door, not via the Cathedral Place mall/lobby as it's locked outside regular business hours. Good selection of makeup FX products, but not as general a product range as HollyNorth.
  • Thomas FX: North Vancouver, just over the Iron Workers Memorial Bridge. Large range of makeup FX and production supplies.

Plastics

Miscellaneous

  • Lee Valley: SE Marine Drive at Knight St Bridge.
  • Princess Auto: Opposite side of the highway from IKEA in Coquitlam.
  • KMS Tools: Next to the IKEA in Coquitlam.
  • Busy Bee Tools: Near Braid skytrain station in New Westminster.
  • Summit Tools: 1st Ave at Boundary.
  • KBC Tools & Machinery: Annacis Island, just south of New Westminster.
  • Acklands Grainger: Many locations, but limited hours. The location near VHS is closed in May 2016.
  • Adler Auto: Surrey and further out locations.
  • HollyNorth Production Supply: 1st Ave at Boundary, kind of hard to find. These guys sell to the film industry, but they do cash sales too.
  • SR Fine Tools: Chinatown source of magnifiers, tweezers, etc.
  • Wainbee: Hydraulics, pneumatics, toggle clamps, actuators, electromechanical (steppers, servos, etc). Surrey.

Computers & etc

Online Retailers

Electronic Components

  • Digikey: They've got pretty much anything, and they ship overnight from Canada.
  • Mouser: Similar to Digikey, but ship from the US (taking an extra day usually).
  • Newark element14: Similar to Digikey and Mouser, but slower and more expensive shipping.
  • SparkFun: Awesome site with tutorials and lots of breakout boards and rad parts.
  • Adafruit: Good starter kits, mostly revolve around Arduino.
  • Seeed Studio: Similar to SparkFun, located in China. Offers services such as PCB manufacturing and laser cutting also.
  • ITead Studio: Similar to Seeed Studio, and also located in China.
  • Modtronics Australia: Very Niche store - great for hobbyist wireless modules.

Free samples

Many semiconductor manufacturers run sample programs that let you get small quantities of chips for very cheap or free. Some programs require a registered business contact. See this wiki page for more information.

Robotics

  • Solarbotics: Robotics related parts (motors, electronics, gears, sensors, etc).
  • RobotShop: Robots and related parts.

Aluminum Extrusion

Importing aluminum extrusion can be difficult due to restrictions. See https://talk.vanhack.ca/t/group-order-of-v-slot-from-openbuilds/1000/2.

Materials

  • Inventables: Acrylic sheets, woods and vaneers, moulding materials, etc.
  • RepRaper: Cheap ABS and PLA filament, parts, and electronics for 3D printers.
  • OpenBeam USA: An online retail store that sells mechanical bits and pieces for your projects.
  • McMaster Carr: Massive catalog of engineering components. Not the cheapest, but the only source for many things. Used to be US-only, but ships (fast) to Canada now.
  • Misumi USA: Another massive catalog of engineering components.

Miscellaneous

  • Ali Express: Sort of Amazon meets eBay in China - and almost everything that is manufactured in or for China is available here (i.e. almost everything).
  • Deal Extreme: Almost anything is available here from electronics dev boards to clothing. Chinese, very cheap price & quality, free slow shipping.
  • Bang Good: Very similar to Deal Extreme in every way, but often cheaper.
  • Lock Pick Canada: Lock picks, practice locks, related tools

Surplus

  • Apex Jr: Surplus gear at good prices, lots of audio amplifier bits including toroids. Will ship a 4 lb bag for US$13.
  • Electronic Goldmine: Surplus electronics parts, lots of unique stuff.

Cross Border Shopping

In general Point Roberts is closer and easier on Transit/Bike. Blaine is further but offers the chance to pick up a parcel as part of another trip. Tax info at CBSA.

Software tools

  • Woodgears.ca: Online gear calculator
  • Algodoo: Free 2D physics software (linkages, springs, motors, optics…)

Other

  • Great West Wholesale - This is a wholesaler for anything you would find at a dollar store.
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