Well stated Pete.
My experience with McMaster-Carr is that you get a good price on quality
materials and parts. You are NOT getting scraps, floor sweepings, or
substitute parts.
More importantly, if you are not sure what you need, McMaster-Carr's
catalog generally has a discussion on the various grades of materials,
their common uses, as well as their limitations. A virtual rabbit-hole
for the insanely curious!
If by chance McMaster-Carr doesn't have something (and they have a LOT)
... you can also look at Grainger ... a similar company focusing more on
industrial maintenance and repair.
For those that remember The Small Parts Company and their catalog ...
sadly they were gobbled up by Amazon a long time ago. Once a place where
you could get stainless steel spheres in a wide range of sizes, o-rings
galore, and little stuff you didn't know you needed until you saw it ...
alas all is gone. I still keep an old catalog for those times when I
need a mechanical connectivity part but don't really know what it looks
like or is named!
Thanks,
Rick NM3G
On 4/16/2020 7:55 AM, Pete Soper via TriEmbed wrote:
Dear Triembeders,
Twenty five years ago when I finally pursued a life long goal of
getting into amateur radio some of my "ham" buddies who had more loose
change than me uttered two words any time the subject of obtaining a
fastener or raw construction material came up: McMaster Carr.
Snip ------------------------------------------
_______________________________________________
Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list
To post message: [email protected]
List info: http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org
TriEmbed web site: http://TriEmbed.org
To unsubscribe, click link and send a blank message:
mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
