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> I hear they aren't very good outside the US though, which is a shame. I hope that this comment won't be interpreted harshly, but their familiarity with mainl
by zinekeller 5y ago
> I hear they aren't very good outside the US though, which is a shame.
I hope that this comment won't be interpreted harshly, but their familiarity with mainly American measurements really handicaps them elsewhere. It's not really their fault, but counterintuitively from where I am it's still miles better than other (domestic or international) suppliers for smaller quantities.
- stjohnswarts 5y agoWhat do you mean familiarity with American measurements? Unit conversion is a solved problem.
- apendleton 5y agoI assume they meant that they default to making things that come in imperial-unit sizes (e.g., quarter-inch nuts instead of 6mm ones or whatever). It's not really practical to mix and match.
- brirec 5y ago> It's not really practical to mix and match. Tell that to my computer, with both 6-32 and M3 screws.
- kube-system 5y agoTell that to my computer, with a bunch of stripped out threads.
- dendrite9 5y agoSo both types of screws work?
- kube-system 5y agoOnly if you try hard enough
- modriano 5y agoMcM is just a warehousing and distribution company; they don't make any of the things they sell. They define products by specs rather than manufacturer (is few brand names are used in the catalog/site), which makes it much easier to stock parts of every nearly every flavor (imperial, metric, dozens of odd pipe threading standards, thousands of ASME/ANSI/DIN/other-standards-body-standards). McM absolutely mixes and matches.
- Aeolun 5y agoIt’s also a problem that shouldn’t exist any more in this day and age.
- technobabbler 5y agoTell that to NASA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter#Cause_of_failure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter#Cause_of_...
- theduemmer 5y agoI was more referring to issues with shipping and ordering outside of the US. But you are entirely right about them focusing on American measurements, their selection of metric parts is much weaker and more expensive than their customary (main?) Sizes of parts. I do wonder if they are or will be working on improving that any time soon.