Older McMaster avialable for shipping cost

I don't know why anyone would use McMaster's almost 3000 page catalog if he has a computer and can browse their website. I was just there looking for stainless screws and I was bowled over by the efficiency and pure logic of their product finder. Just put "bolt" in the search window and see pictured

9 grouped categories of bolts. If you used the slider on the right side, you can scroll down to finer detail on each page, but lets just say you click on "Socket cap screws" - - then you see 8 head styles, 6 materials, 7 finishes, 4 classes, and 5 drive styles, shown in pictures where possible. So you click on "Button head" and see 3 materials, 4 finishes, 2 classes, and 5 drive styles. Let's say you click "Stainless steel" and see 2 types, 2 finishes, and 4 drive styles (with comparison charts available on material, finish and class), and choose Hex head, 18-8 stainless, plain, metric and fully threaded. Finally you have a choice of thread and length with Stock numbers and packaging with prices. This is certainly a bewildering array of alternatives, but this computer guided catalog makes it easy - - no squinting at fine type; no trying to separate pages with dry fingers. At each stage you can go back up to the top and revise a previous choice by clicking on the category of concern. What a fantastic achievement! ! ! Combine that with their "no minimum order requirement" policy, rapid stock pull and quick shipment, and you have an unbeatable combination. Well, enough of the sales talk - - I was just blown away by their on-line catalog, and had to say something about it where it might do some good.

Chuck

I assume it would be for bedtime reading, or for learning about stuff that one never heard about.

i

It would be very nice if they were not so terrified of Fatherland Security that they would actually ship stuff to my US location. 8-(

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

It makes for great bathroom reading. I read that catalog from front to back about 12 or so years ago a few pages at a time. Being able to recall that I can get that from Mcmasters saved my butt many a time.

When I was younger we read the sears roebuck catalog in the loo, (no, we didn't use it to wipe)

Wes

This Fatherland Security is the most nonsensical operation. A bunch of dumbasses with a bureaucratic itch. They are reclassifying old obsolete military surplus test equipment and demand its returns years after it was sold.

i

What you left unsaid raises a question, are you using the McMaster catalog to wipe?

i

It is *not* helping the US balance of trade to have to jump through hoops. There are `no US products` requirements being written into EU high tech RFPs just because of those hoops-- before they were happy enough to buy US space etc. products-- prices were good, availability too, but there is absolutely nothing proprietary about the technology-- if it is difficult to buy from the US due to restrictions they will go elsewhere at more or less the same price, and more competitors will quickly arise. Reverse protectionism!

I am trying to spend a lot of money on US products, with mixed success. Heck, with the current weakness in the US dollar, everything looks very cheap. I can understand ITAR restrictions on some of the things I deal with, and the associated clearances, inspections and paperwork, but that is the top 0.01% or 0.001% of stuff, and it should not affect things you can buy just about anywhere... ie. anything McMaster sells. Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

That's what the phone book is for; just look up someone you dislike ;)

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I should have swiped a D.C. telephone book last time I was there.

Wes