Tools, Hardware, etc.

  1. Misc
    1. MetalWorking.Com
    2. Rec.Crafts.Metalworking FAQ
    3. MIT's into to machine tools
    4. American Welding Society
    5. ToolSource Good list of manufacturer links
    6. Lindsay Publication, weird techie books.
    7. Gov't Tech papers DB

  2. Catalogs, Mail Order Suppliers
    1. Grainger
    2. Harbor Freight
    3. Industrial Pipe & Steel
    4. McMaster Carr
    5. MSC
    6. Sears Craftsman
    7. Tool Crib of the North. Lots of name brand electric power tool lines (DeWalt, Milwaukee, Makita, etc)
    8. Williams Low-Buck Tools. Mostly metal working.
    9. Shop Outfitters

    10. Bearings and Drives, deals in Industrial Surplus Equipment, specializing in Power Transmission Equipment.

    11. Aircraft Spruce

    12. Fasteners
      1. BarnBolt. Fasteners. Suppliers to Sandia and Los Alamos. "Warehouse...wholesale to the public." Not a bad selection of metric.
      2. Mr. Fast'ner. Brits with a few retail assortments.
      3. Metric and Multistandard Components Corp. Metric fasteners, PDF catalog. Recommended by Carroll Shelby, but seems to be corp only, no retail.
      4. Metric Specialties. Metric fasteners, Burbank, CA. Recommended by Carroll Shelby
      5. Maryland Metrics. Metric fasteners.
      6. Met-Tec. "metallurgical complex alloys." Titanium bolts.

    13. Truechoice Motorsports Equipment

    14. Conney Safety Products
    15. New Pig, cleanup stuff

  3. Shop, distributors, supply stores
    1. Interstate Welding

  4. Manufacturers
    1. Ingersoll Rand
    2. Chicago Pneumatic

    3. Makita
    4. Milwaukee
    5. Black and Decker
    6. Bosch
    7. Dremel
    8. Porter Cable
    9. Delta
    10. Jet Equipment and tools

    11. Sherline, milling machines and such.
    12. Shoptask, 3 in 1 (drill, lathe, mill)

     

  5. Welding

    1. Lincoln Electric
    2. Concoa
    3. Harris Calorific (Gas Division of Lincoln Electric)
    4. Miller Electric
    5. Esab, Welding Supplies (formerly Union Carbide and Linde.)

 

  1. Metal
    1. RSP Products, Netherlands. Aluminum and Ti
    2. MatWeb: Info on many alloys and their specs and recommended uses.
    3. MetalWorking.Com
    4. Metal Express, "in Illinois, no minimum, UPS next day. Prices are a little more than commercial houses...800-657-0721"
    5. Steel Lynx
    6. blacksmith's home page
    7. metal web news. good welding stuff
    8. Tube Net, links to tubing places
    9. Burns Stainless Steel
    10. Boeing Surplus Raw materials: Jon Thurman (425) 393-4049. Scrap matrials, Non-ferous metals: Rich Bloss (425) 393-9585
    11. Metal World
    12. Shapiro Supply, Tubing
    13. A.E.D. Motorsport. They supply metal to racers
    14. Handy & Harmon, The Brazing place
    15. Tin Man Tech. Michael Moore sez "Kent White is a pretty well-known sheetmetal guy, and sells supplies/plans for different metal working tools, as well as hosting classes."
    16. Metal Suppliers Online, a site about how to get metal.
    17. Alloy Tech, metal brokers. They've got a page full of metals links.
    18. The Chassis Shop, Cro-Moly tubing, < $2.00 per foot.
    19. Titanium
      1. Titanium Industries
      2. Titanium Metals
      3. Titanium Technologies
      4. Titanex, a Swiss Titanium Company
  2. Composites
  3. Carbon Composites. a carbon fiber supply place
  4. ACP Composites
  5. Airtech Advanced Materials Group. composites
  6. FibreGlas.t Composites. Good info
  7. Kayak Construction with Aerospace Composites, For the Home Workshop, By Ray >Jardine
  8. About molding and laminating CF
  9. HOW I MADE A CARBON FIBER/EPOXY COMPOSITE BIKE IN MY GARAGE
  10. Another composite bicycle
  11. If you are interested in the use of a vaccum bag
  12. If you are interested in the use of a vaccum bag