Jim Wilkins wrote:

On Apr 4, 1:17 am, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:
Jim Wilkins wrote:
I...Out of
curiosity I asked the Home Depot service desk about parts and was told
they couldn't get anything at all for it, in fact the store displays
had been stripped of small parts by angry customers.

You can buy some of them from Campbell Hausfeld. A lot of the parts
are industry standard but some people are too lazy to look for
replacements, so they steal parts from a store. ...

Curiosity, not necessity. It has a new pressure switch from Northern
on it.

I've found that people who want to learn to build and repair equipment
aren't aware of the suppliers, even the ones who have local outlets,
so I give them my old Northern, Bailey, Parker, Fastenal et al
catalogs.

How did you learn about MSC, Grainger, McMaster-Carr?


Working in manufacturing. We used them, plus dozens of other
suppliers for parts to keep our plant running. The ME office had about
30 feet of shelves full of current catalogs. Unfortunately, I didn't
get a chance to inventory all the suppliers when they decided to close
the plant. i wasn't allowed to take any of the catalogs, but they all
went into a construction dumpster.

I have local Northern, Grainger and three Fastenal stores. I deal
with all three companies.

One of our suppliers was Accurate Screw Machine, who made hardware
for electronics.


Google's results for "end mill":
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&s...o q=&gs_rfai=


20,000,000 hits.


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