Subject: Re[2]: railroad spikes

From: Robert Ehrenberger at mcctrp2 <[email-masked]>
Date: 10 Sep 96 10:05:00 EDT

New Text Item:  Re: railroad spikes
Franklyn,

Could you provide more information on how to contact McMaster Carr. Does he 
have a catalog? I know from experience that for every usable HC that we find 
there are a dozen that are junk.

Thanks for the info,   Bob Ehrenberger

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Subject: Re: railroad spikes
Author:  [email-masked] ("Franklyn Garland") @ INTERNET at NOTEMAIL
Date:    9/8/96 4:35 PM

>
> A safer plan would be to go to your local scrap yard for used
> spikes. There is always a pile at mine.
>
> Bob
>
>
If you ever decide to produce spike knives in any quantity (or spike anything 
for that matter)  they are available, brand-shiny new, from
McMaster Carr for about $1.50@ (last I checked)  You can specify the
HC type as well.
Sometimes it is nicer to have a consistant source than a "free"
source if you have to make a bunch of em'.
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From: "Steven O. Smith" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 96 9:55:33 MDT

> Thanks for the info,   Bob Ehrenberger

There has recently been a big discussion on the rec.crafts.metalworking 
newsgroup about McMaster Carr. Basically the conclusion that people
came to is that there is absolutely no way in hell you will get a
catalog. They don't care if you are a business or not. If you are head
purchasing agent for a company doing 50 million a year in
manufacturing, they might send you a catalog. They have a web page,
and some day the catalog might show up there.

To temper this, being a blacksmith, they are trying to get their
catalog out on CDROM. Uninformed speculation says that the cost of a
cd is lots less than a paper catalog. Maybe their policy will loosen
up. 

They are very helpful on the phone, and will accept orders from you,
just won't give you a catalog!

Here's another place that claims to sell all that McMaster Carr does
and more and for less:

American Material Resources, Inc.
Post Office Box 849
302 6th Avenue
Ouray, CO 81427-0849 U.S.A. 

Phone: (970) 325-0700
Fax: (970) 325-0505
E-mail: [email-masked]
URL: http://www.commerce.com/placette 

That's all I know about them.

For my money, MSC is really hard to beat. They have excellent service,
stock the cheap stuff and the expensive stuff, have great sales, and
send you the 3400 page catalog at the drop of a hat. To paraphrase
somebody on news, "Its like they got a prize for sending me a
catalog". They don't care if you are a company. Shipping is priced UPS
ground, but comes UPS second day! MSC (800)645-7270

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Steven O. Smith
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