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Does anyone have a good source for buying these types of odd parts? Years ago there was a website called "smallparts.com" but this was bought out and no longer
by proee 7y ago
Does anyone have a good source for buying these types of odd parts?
Years ago there was a website called "smallparts.com" but this was bought out and no longer exists.
- wlesieutre 7y agoI don’t remember exactly what SmallParts carried, but their closest competitor might be McMaster-Carr? https://www.mcmaster.com/ https://www.mcmaster.com/ And SmallParts I think is now Amazon Supply or something, but dear god would I not trust Amazon for that sort of purchase. Especially PPE like allegedly 3M respirators. Who knows how much of this is counterfeit.
- pselbert 7y agoThey were a life saver when I was going to school for furniture. We would order everything from them. Screws, bits, inserts, random bits of metal. Later I discovered that they provide CAD drawings for everything they carry. That was immensely helpful when designing things in say, Solidworks. If there were some screws that were called for it only took a visit to McMaster-Carr to get a 3D version of the real part.
- msds 7y agoMcMaster-Carr is great, but SDP/SI has a larger offering of gears/pinions/belts etc. Amazon Supply is pretty useless, and Small parts was never really great either.
- gxx 7y agoSmall Parts used to be an indispensable source of well cataloged parts for my projects. They shipped quickly and reliably and had a nice parametric search system. Sadly they were acquired by Amazon and effectively ruined. In theory Amazon sells the same parts but Amazon's search for specialized parts is dreadful, and when you find a part it's often out of stock or available with a long lead time from a dubious supplier. To me Small Parts is the classic example of how Amazon is systematically stamping out smaller but better suppliers. I'm not sure why Amazon even needed to acquire them. They could have sold those types of parts anyway. I wonder if they simply wanted the smallparts.com url, which now leads to Amazon. I should clarify why I liked Small Parts vs McMaster Carr: I'm in Canada and Small Parts would ship to Canada, but McMaster Carr would not ship here unless you had a business, but my work was for a hobby.
- jbay808 7y agoI would generally use Misumi. For random stuff, surplus shed is also fun to browse.
- iancmceachern 7y agoStock Drive https://www.sdp-si.com/ https://www.sdp-si.com/
- LyndsySimon 7y agoI bought a lathe and am in the process of learning to use it well.