Vancouver Hack Space

Collected here.

• Lee's Electronics: Fraser and King Edward - 4131 Fraser St
• Main Electronics: Main and 29th - 4554 Main Street
• RP Electronics: Rupert and Grandview Highway - 2752 Rupert Street, Vancouver
• MRO Electronics: Boundary and 1st - 1745 Boundary Road, Vancouver
• Interior Electronics: Boundary and 1st - 1520 Boundary Road, Burnaby
• SMI Electronics: Near Willowbrook Mall - #109 20120 64 Ave, Langley

• 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

• 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

• Home Depot - Terminal Ave (about 1km east of Science World)
• Home Depot - Cambie & 8th
• Canadian Tire - Cambie & 7th
• Army and Navy - Hastings Street downtown or 8th St in New Westminster.

• Pacific Fasteners: 3934 East 1st Ave. They stock a huge range of fasteners (nuts, bolts, screws, nails etc.) and are pretty close to MRO. Old Catalog
• HD Supply Brafasco: 443 Terminal Ave.
• Fastenal: SE Marine Dr and Knight St, and many other locations.
• Canadian Stainless Fasteners: 75 Clipper St, Coquitlam.

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

• 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).
• MB Superior: Metal recycling (good for wire; ask them to see it).
• Main Sheet Metal: Main Street near National Ave, just below the Georgia Viaduct.
• 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.
• Complete Metal Markets: #173-2251 No 5 Rd, Richmond

• KMS Tools: Next to the IKEA in Coquitlam.
• Busy Bee Tools: Near Braid skytrain station in New Westminster.
• KBC Tools & Machinery: Annacis Island, just south of New Westminster.
• ACT Equipment: Near Lougheed Hwy & Willingdon Ave in Burnaby.
• Thomas Skinner: Just East of the Knight St Bridge (close to the IKEA) in Richmond.
• Princess Auto: Opposite side of the highway from IKEA in Coquitlam.

• Century Pacific Foundry: Steel/Irons
• Pacific Mako Foundry: Aluminum/Copper alloys
• Hastings Brass: Aluminum/Brass alloys
• Thompson Foundry: Steel/Iron
• Robar Industries: Steel/Iron and others

• Home Depot - Terminal Ave (about 1km east of Science World)
• Windsor Plywood - Near Granville & Broadway
• Dick's Lumber - Burnaby

• Lee Valley: SE Marine Drive at Knight St Bridge.
• Summit Tools: 1st Ave at Boundary.
• KMS Tools: Next to the IKEA in Coquitlam.

• Fiber-tek: Boundary Rd at 1st Ave.
• Industrial Plastics & Paints: Bridgeport Rd and Sweden Way (near IKEA) in Richmond, and Broadway St and Kingsway Ave in Port Coquitlam.

• 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.

• Industrial Plastics & Paints: Bridgeport Rd and Sweden Way (near IKEA) in Richmond, and Broadway St and Kingsway Ave in Port Coquitlam.
• Surrey Plastic Works: Plastic sheet/bars. Ask for offcuts.
• Associated Plastics Glen Dr just north of Hastings.
• Urban Source: Main Street between 15th and 16th Ave.
• Sabic Polymershapes: Near United Blvd and Mary Hill Bypass in Coquitlam

• 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.

• NCIX / Netlink Computers: Anything by way of computer stuff, Broadway near Burrard and many other locations
• New Type Computer: Yaletown
• Linhaw: Cables, racks, etc (Need an account ahead of time, sells to businesses only)

• 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.

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.

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

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

• makerparts.ca
• Rocky Mountain (Located in Aldergrove)

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

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.

• The Letter Carrier: Point Roberts
• Kinek: Blaine & Point Roberts
• Hagens of Blaine: Blaine
• Security Mail Services: Blaine
• Point Roberts Shell: Point Roberts
• TSB Shipping Plus: Point Roberts

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

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