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Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
I needed some high pressure hydraulic fittings (Around 10,000 psi).
I searched the internet with little success.
So I went to McMaster Carr.
They had what I wanted at reasonable prices.
Their catalog is a great info resource....complete & concise summaries.
They explained differences & compatibility of NPT & NPTF threads.
I ordered the items late yesterday.
They arrived today.
 

BSM1

What? Me worry?
Had to look it up...who knew? Now try to find a store that can give you the ampacity of a standard single gang wiring box.
 

PureX

Veteran Member
I needed some high pressure hydraulic fittings (Around 10,000 psi).
I searched the internet with little success.
So I went to McMaster Carr.
They had what I wanted at reasonable prices.
Their catalog is a great info resource....complete & concise summaries.
They explained differences & compatibility of NPT & NPTF threads.
I ordered the items late yesterday.
They arrived today.
Yep, they are pretty good, though I think their prices tend to be high. On the other hand, they also tend to sell only quality merchandise, so you're getting what you're paying for.

The only thing I've gotten from them that I was disappointed with was a motor for my band saw. There's a loose wire inside it that causes it not to run when I turn the switch on, but it only does it sometimes, which made it extremely difficult to find, and then once I found it, I couldn't get at it to fix it. The best I can do is unplug it, stick something in a hole and wiggle the wires, and then try it again. It's very annoying, but the motor was expensive, and I'm too stubborn (and poor) to replace it, again.

I also have a small family-owned market near me that has a great meat and deli counter, that I like going to.

On the other end of the scale is Walmart. I will not go to Walmart, ever, if I can possibly avoid it.
 

columbus

yawn <ignore> yawn
I needed some high pressure hydraulic fittings (Around 10,000 psi).
I searched the internet with little success.
So I went to McMaster Carr.
They had what I wanted at reasonable prices.
Their catalog is a great info resource....complete & concise summaries.
They explained differences & compatibility of NPT & NPTF threads.
I ordered the items late yesterday.
They arrived today.
Is McMaster Carr a company producing USA made parts, out of USA steel, with USA employees?
Or are you undermining the President?
Tom
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Yep, they are pretty good, though I think their prices tend to be high. On the other hand, they also tend to sell only quality merchandise, so you're getting what you're paying for.
Their prices are indeed high for common items.
But when in need of something special, as I did, their
selection & prices were better than any other source I found.

Next up.....
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They're tops in service & pricing on everything from bacon to pants to roofing.
 

Milton Platt

Well-Known Member
I needed some high pressure hydraulic fittings (Around 10,000 psi).
I searched the internet with little success.
So I went to McMaster Carr.
They had what I wanted at reasonable prices.
Their catalog is a great info resource....complete & concise summaries.
They explained differences & compatibility of NPT & NPTF threads.
I ordered the items late yesterday.
They arrived today.
Not familiar with them, but an interesting story. Lots of retailers used to be that way. Now you have to deal with pimple faced kids who wouldn’t know a tool if it hit them in the forehead.
 

Ellen Brown

Well-Known Member
Had to look it up...who knew? Now try to find a store that can give you the ampacity of a standard single gang wiring box.

Buy yourself a copy of the National Electrical Code. Mostly it is about "Box Fill" and how many wires you can put in a box and bending radius. Tell me what you are trying to do, and perhaps I can give you some guidance? I was a Licensed Electrician (in America) for 33 years, though have been retired since 2003.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Not familiar with them, but an interesting story. Lots of retailers used to be that way. Now you have to deal with pimple faced kids who wouldn’t know a tool if it hit them in the forehead.
McMaster Carr has long been different from other industrial/commercial suppliers.
Their catalogs are massive, complete, & informative.
They're so desired that a vintage one can bring a thousand bucks.
I once sold a 1918 catalog to McMaster Carr for their museum.
I charged only $200.
It was worth far far more than that.
Even their modern catalogs are sold on ebay because not every
Tom, Dick or Harry (or Sally) has the status to receive one.
By comparison, Grainger (a competitor) has an uninspiring catalog.
Back in 1895, Strelinger had a similarly great catalog.
 

Milton Platt

Well-Known Member
McMaster Carr has long been different from other industrial/commercial suppliers.
Their catalogs are massive, complete, & informative.
They're so desired that a vintage one can bring a thousand bucks.
I once sold a 1918 catalog to McMaster Carr for their museum.
I charged only $200.
It was worth far far more than that.
Even their modern catalogs are sold on ebay because not every
Tom, Dick or Harry (or Sally) has the status to receive one.
By comparison, Grainger (a competitor) has an uninspiring catalog.
Back in 1895, Strelinger had a similarly great catalog.

In my teen years, I worked in an old fashioned service station, with the grease racks, etc. I could walk into an auto parts store and the guys working the counter had been there three times longer than I had been alive. I could ask for a part for a specific make, model, and year, and they would nearly always just walk to the back and pull the part without referencing the catalogue. I was always impressed with that.
 

BSM1

What? Me worry?
Buy yourself a copy of the National Electrical Code. Mostly it is about "Box Fill" and how many wires you can put in a box and bending radius. Tell me what you are trying to do, and perhaps I can give you some guidance? I was a Licensed Electrician (in America) for 33 years, though have been retired since 2003.

Yeah, I was just kidding. I had to have Special Low Voltage Electricians License in one particular state I worked in. Every 24 months I had to have four hours of CE on the NEC even though nothing in the NEC pertained to my business. Ampacities was one of the things that stuck in my mind.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
In my teen years, I worked in an old fashioned service station, with the grease racks, etc. I could walk into an auto parts store and the guys working the counter had been there three times longer than I had been alive. I could ask for a part for a specific make, model, and year, and they would nearly always just walk to the back and pull the part without referencing the catalogue. I was always impressed with that.
When I worked at Koppers Co in Glen Arm, MD, we had a system where all parts
had a "WA number", ie, of the form WAxxxxx. One old guy always knew exactly
what to get from the number alone. I never saw him look anything up.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Yeah, I was just kidding. I had to have Special Low Voltage Electricians License in one particular state I worked in. Every 24 months I had to have four hours of CE on the NEC even though nothing in the NEC pertained to my business. Ampacities was one of the things that stuck in my mind.
Did you ever work with magneto reluctance or panendermicity?
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
This is one of Mrs Revolt's favorite stores.
So many great deals.
(But they do need an express checkout line.)
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PureX

Veteran Member
In my teen years, I worked in an old fashioned service station, with the grease racks, etc. I could walk into an auto parts store and the guys working the counter had been there three times longer than I had been alive. I could ask for a part for a specific make, model, and year, and they would nearly always just walk to the back and pull the part without referencing the catalogue. I was always impressed with that.
There was a HUGE junkyard on the south side of Chicago when I was living there. Everyone said that if you need a part for your car, cheap, no matter how unusual, go there. So I did.

There was a youngish guy working there that was some sort of auto-part savant. I saw him in action, and it was truly amazing. This place had many THOUSANDS of junk cars, and this guy could tell the 'fetch-it man' where to find the car with that part in just a couple seconds. He would tell you some bit of technical information about the part in question, for a second or two, and then he'd turn to the fetcher and tell them where to find it. Just like that.
 

Ellen Brown

Well-Known Member
As I said before, I spent half my life as an Electrician but never got into power generation save to say that the thing ran. Last night I watched a video on Micro Hydro Electric Generation. This one could do about 2000 watts from a little wheel in a Colorado creek. I was surprised that this Generator could be wired to do anything from 120 Volts to 480 V. Three Phase. The biggest surprise to me was that excitation frequency was handled in a little controller. I'd expected some sort of mechanical governor.

I think that where I live, none of this would be permitted by the Government.

A further, pleasant surprise is that in many third world areas, they use Micro Generation, village to village, because many people are understanding the environmental devastation that large dams wreak.
 
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