Anyone ever been in a Fastenal? I had never heard of it before today... I was just checking out their website and they seem to be all over the Metroplex. They stock all types of fasteners and several brands of tools including Craftsman.
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Anyone ever been in a Fastenal? I had never heard of it before today... I was just checking out their website and they seem to be all over the Metroplex. They stock all types of fasteners and several brands of tools including Craftsman.
They've been around for several years. I've never been there, but my bro uses them for stuff. Never heard him complain.
Go buy me some tools, and I'll let you know how I like them ;)
It looks like it won't be easy for me to check them out, as the stores near my are only open M-F 7am-5pm.
You guys can't be that busy anymore :rolleyes: just sneak out for a long lunch.
There is one in Rockwall about 15 minutes from my house. I'm just concerned that I would go into a tool shopping trance and wander around the store drooling for 3 hours.Quote:
Originally Posted by onething
My kind of candy store!
Got one just up the road from the world headquarters they offer business accounts.
Small clean store not a lot of glitz they compete against Grainger.
Most likely not.Quote:
I'm just concerned that I would go into a tool shopping trance and wander around the store drooling for 3 hours.
They are all about the fasteners. They do carry some tools, but most of the store is filled with fasteners. They will order what ever you want, but I have found them to have less than Grainger and MSC as far as tools go. They might also want a business account like Grainger and MSC.
Yep, they're a big supplier of ours at work. Lots of fun stuff.Quote:
Originally Posted by Titus
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Originally Posted by Titus
Yep, I've used them twice now for some turbo stuff. Like this pretty:
http://www.railway-technology.com/co...rd/washer1.jpg
They aren't as handy with Metric stuff, but still have a good supply. Get one of their Catalogs, that thing is impressive.
The best deal they had is you can buy individual Taps and Dies.
Though the one I use in Austin is listed as being open Saturday on it's website, it is not.
Chris
fastenall has helped me on every occasion except for 2 weeks ago.
Its hard to believe that "we" haven't switched to metric yet.
Honestly, I'll be surprised if "we" ever do switch to metric, at least in manufacturing.Quote:
Originally Posted by mr brg
It's a legacy issue. I'll use my company as an example. We have over a quarter of a million engineering prints in archive, some of which go back thrity or forty years or more. Almost all of those prints are dimensioned in standard units. Many of the older prints are hand drawn, or were "drawn" using CAD systems that are no longer in use. To revise the units on these prints to metric would require a lot of drafting work, as the parts would first have to be created from the existing print in our current CAD software, then new prints made of the new parts. That takes a lot of time, and there is almost no benefit, as most of our suppliers can work in standard units just as well as they can in metric.
Even the "easy" part of converting prints that exist in our current CAD system from standard to metric would take tens of thousands of man hours, since each print has to be brought down into a local workspace, converted, marked with a revision block to track the change, checked back into the common CAD database, etc. Figure a minimum of 15-20 man minutes expended per print, multiplied by 150,000+ CAD prints, multiplied by the burden labor rate for a drafter (plus the burden rate of an engineer to review the documentation), and you're talking about a lot of money.
Until a compelling cost/benefit case can be made for a switch to metric, we'll continue to work in standard units, as will a large percentage of American manufacturing companies.
I prefer Grainger.
I also get a significant Boeing employee discount from them.