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Post by jklw77 on Nov 20, 2019 17:57:45 GMT -5
Sometimes you need hardware ,material whatever...things that are all butt impossible to find .from achme shafts and nuts to fit to fix a vise, to spring steel to fix a recliner .place to go is McMaster-Carr straight forward ,quick shipping. ordered a helicoil yesterday at 3pm, it showed up today at 2pm.came all the way across the us. jklw77
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Post by jselden78 on Nov 20, 2019 20:38:07 GMT -5
Recently I’ve had the task of basically setting up the maintenance/machine shop for a large department in an even larger industrial facility. When I say set up I mean from scratch as in a brand new facility. When compared to other vendors such as Grainger and MSC, McMaster Carr has a much more user friendly and accurate website. Items are much easier to find. I’ve looked up items on Grainger and the pic not coincide with the description and the when the item arrived it wasn’t the same as either the picture or description
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Post by kysawman on Nov 20, 2019 20:50:58 GMT -5
I use all of them at my job and McMaster is the way to go unfortunately it is not corporate prefered vendor, but when msc and applied Industral don’t have it then it is go time.
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Post by jselden78 on Nov 21, 2019 6:04:56 GMT -5
I will say Grainger recently blew me away. I had purchased a drill/mill combo made by Jet. Not my choice I pushed for Bridgeport but some engineers and accounting department pushed otherwise. After much debate we got the Jet. In higher speeds it’s sounded like it had gravel in the head. We called and Jet said that’s normal for a direct drive. We found a comparable Dayton that sounded much better that our die shop had purchased. I requested a return on the Jet and grainger did a full refund the next day and said scrap the Jet they didn’t want it back and couldn’t sell it again. It was a $4300 machine.
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Post by sweepleader on Nov 21, 2019 10:00:01 GMT -5
McMaster is my first choice. I had a situation where I needed a handle extension for a ball valve that they carried. They did not sell the extension so I called them, in two hours I had a very reasonable quote and I had the parts I needed the next day. That on a part they did not sell! And I agree that their web site is far superior to any other I have used, especially Grainger. I avoid Grainger even though they have a warehouse located about 10 miles from me, McMaster is 400 miles away. If you need something, call them on the phone, they are great.
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Post by charles on Nov 21, 2019 17:00:40 GMT -5
Use them and love them ! Overnight on everything for me .
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Post by blythkd on Nov 21, 2019 19:29:56 GMT -5
I used to order from the Big 3 at work and agree that McMaster Carr is the gold standard. I still go to them for personal purchases from time to time and get treated as if I'm still buying thousands of dollars in merchandise a year from them.
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