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Yoyodyne said:
McM is amazing. If half of industry worked half as well as McMaster it would be a wonderful world. Best website I've ever used too.
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Yup.

Also, the detailed drawings/exploded views are fucking epic.

Used to have the big thick catalog book, sumbitch was like 4 inches thick!


They're far better than grainger or anyone else out there.
 
Yoyodyne said:
A trombone brush!
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In an episode of "How It's Done" about brass musical instrument repair they were using 'dent balls' on a rope pulling them through the tubes to push dents back out. After seeing that, to remove dents from headers I made several different size football shaped balls out of steel with 3/8" holes and either put them on 3/8" all thread rod or pull them through with a cable. With a rosebud torch and a hammer you can make a header look almost good as new. I loaned them to a friend and he returned them along with an old 1-7/8" hitch ball that has a bolt hole through it.

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Torque Command said:
I appreciate that feedback. First thing I did when I read that was to see if McMaster was publicly traded. They are not. But I'm always listening to people when they have amazing things to say about a company and how well it is run. (y)
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McMaster is universally praised worldwide. Maybe because it is closely held? The ONLY legit complaints I've seen are about pricing, most are normal industry retail prices and the cheap asses grumble "I can get it $.50 cheaper on Amazon". Some stuff is actually cheaper than locally. Shipping is instantaneous and amazingly cheap, Often next day air for $9 or so total without asking just to make sure you get it the next day, stock is deep, tech support and customer service is terrific, they will find special items just for you, terms are generous, every order is treated like a Plant Down emergency. If I order by 6PM it's here in the AM. The website is updated daily - I've seen changes from morning to afternoon when items or packaging changes.
And you can download CAD files for just about everything from their site.
 
Mr. Breeze said:
Used to have the big thick catalog book, sumbitch was like 4 inches thick!
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I have a few if you need one. The website is better, but you sometimes stumble across something you never heard of when paging through the book
They sell on Ebay for close to $100 when they first are released because not every customer gets one, and you can't request them. Older ones are worth even more to lawyers who chase asbestos litigation, I got about $80 for a late 70s issue.
 
Yoyodyne said:
I have a few if you need one. The website is better, but you sometimes stumble across something you never heard of when paging through the book
They sell on Ebay for close to $100 when they first are released because not every customer gets one, and you can't request them. Older ones are worth even more to lawyers who chase asbestos litigation, I got about $80 for a late 70s issue.
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Wow, interesting! Nah I don't even use the catalogs anymore. Literally threw a massive stack of them and grainger books away a couple years ago.
 
I was always jealous of the guys living near Englshtown Raceway Park. They had a McMaster local to them that they could stop in.

I live in Atco. I have a Grainger local but every time I went there the counter people where assholes or idiots.
 
M120X said:
I have a Grainger local but every time I went there the counter people where assholes or idiots.
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Seems universal. Had one here for about 5 years then closed. Zoro.com is the discount online division of Grainger. Look it up on Grainger then order it from Zoro. They send 20% off coupons out about 1X/month.
 
itey said:
In an episode of "How It's Done" about brass musical instrument repair they were using 'dent balls' on a rope pulling them through the tubes to push dents back out. After seeing that, to remove dents from headers I made several different size football shaped balls out of steel with 3/8" holes and either put them on 3/8" all thread rod or pull them through with a cable. With a rosebud torch and a hammer you can make a header look almost good as new. I loaned them to a friend and he returned them along with an old 1-7/8" hitch ball that has a bolt hole through it.

iu
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Nice. I've seen 2 stroke expansion chambers brought back from crushed scrap using air pressure and a torch.
 
The reason I sought out the flexible trombone cleaning brush decades ago is that I always run large aquariums in my house. They have intricate canister filters that have lots of tubing, and that tubing gets gunked up and needs to be brushed out. Saw that suggestion for the trombone brush a long time ago, and decided to use it on my engine cleaning. Super cheap and they work - give 'em a try!
 
itey said:
In an episode of "How It's Done" about brass musical instrument repair they were using 'dent balls' on a rope pulling them through the tubes to push dents back out. After seeing that, to remove dents from headers I made several different size football shaped balls out of steel with 3/8" holes and either put them on 3/8" all thread rod or pull them through with a cable. With a rosebud torch and a hammer you can make a header look almost good as new. I loaned them to a friend and he returned them along with an old 1-7/8" hitch ball that has a bolt hole through it.

iu
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Ever wonder how HVAC and refrigeration condensers and evap coils are made ?
Tubes are slid in place thru the aluminum fins,,
And then slugs or balls are fired thru the tubes under high water pressure, expanding the tubes and locking them onto the fins..

I’ve had special coils made for customers to replace obsolete ones, and coils made with copper fins for corrosive environments that would eat up aluminum fins.. mostly for egg plants,,
believe it or not, the ammonia put off from chicken shit is highly corrosive… we were replacing evap coils in the walk-in coolers yearly!!!
Switched to copper finned coils and the problem went away…
 
M120X said:
I was always jealous of the guys living near Englshtown Raceway Park. They had a McMaster local to them that they could stop in.

I live in Atco. I have a Grainger local but every time I went there the counter people where assholes or idiots.
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I sent my parts guy to the Robbibsville, NJ location to pick up a slinger seal nearly identical to one off a piece of machinery from Italy......like $9.00 and he was there and back in two hours. Had the machine running by 11:00
 
AllRev said:
THIS Sunday for Part II ?
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Wow , he/ they got the engine back already from the machine shop? Must be nice to get the Baller treatment at the machine shop.
I dropped my block off 2 1/2 or so years ago and I will bet ya $20 it's still in the same spot where I dropped it off
 
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