"DoN. Nichols" wrote:

On 2014-05-16, Bob La Londe wrote:
It Might Ship As Early as Today

Ok, does anybody in the machinery business ever really mean it when they say
that? If they do mean it are the ever successful?

Well ... when I buy (components, tools and instruments) from
MSC, they ship on the same day (unless I call really late -- e.g. just
before the West Coast branches close), and I typically get them the next
work day. (Usually shipped from the Harrisburg PA warehouse, and
arriving in Northern VA (close to the DC beltway).

Last semi-heavy thing which I ordered from them was the typical
$200 Horizontal/Vertical bandsaw, and that took a bit longer, since it
came by freight -- but not much longer.

I've purchased four pieces of equipment in the last month that needed to be
sent by truck. Not one item shipped when they said, and not one item was
delivered by the estimated delivery date even after it was shipped.

I've had similar problems recently with ordering certain
electronics connectors. At least one had to wait until the factory made
another run of that particular configuration. :-(


I've been looking for the connector HP used to connect to the 355E/F
attenuators. No one shows any stock. The MOQ from the OEM is 1K, at $28
each. It was a seven pin Winchester circular plug, HP: Connector (7-pin,
male) 1251-1037


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