McMaster-Carr miracle :-)

[Sven]

I'm home doing telecons all day so I decided to get some thin neoprene tubing to use as gasket material. Thought I'd try McMasterCarr.com for the first time.

I placed my order just before 9 AM.

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At 2 PM there is a loud banging on the door. There's a guy with a truck in the driveway and he gives me the tubing.

That is a new delivery record as far as I'm concerned


-Sven

 

[selous]

They are fast and have a huge inventory,I was very pleased with their service.

 

[u079721]

Overnight service from them to mid Michigan was pretty much routine. But SAME DAY does indeed have to be some kind of record.

 

[ted_reshetiloff]

When I was in the rigging business we used them a lot becuase regular ground shipping was next day for us. We used to try and come up with the wackiest orders then place them online as late in the as possible. Stuff would still show up next day. We used to laugh trying to imagine who the guy was who had to run through the weahouse to get a 12" X 24" x 3" thick piece of G-10, 13 #12 truss head machine screws, 6 left hand thread nuts, and a piece of nylon bushing material then get it in the UPS truck in time... Hands down the best I have ever dealt with. Returns and customer service too.

One time we were prepping a boat for the bermuda race and were out in the yard and needed to order some more neoprene tubing for gasket material. We were not going to make it back to the shop in time to place the order so we called it in on the phone and had to describe to the lady taking the call what we needed and how she might find it in the 100's of orders we had placed... She found it in seconds and had the order out that day.

Best part of it all is their prices are unbelievably reasonable for all they do.

 

[mherrcat]

What are you using the tubing to seal? I was trying to find weatherstripping of some kind to seal one of the cockpit locker lids, as I have discovered this is where water is getting into my bilge when it rains. The neoprene tubing sounds like it would be perfect.

I have used McMaster-Carr many times in the past and should have thought of them right off...

 

[ted_reshetiloff]

We used neoprene tubing to fix leaking hatch seals. The boat in question had hatches that could not get new seals for. The seal between the frame and the hatch that is. The OEM seal was just squashed flat from age, but it was hollow. Using splicing wand we were able to slip 1/4" neoprene tube into the hatch seal reinvigorating the old seal and drying up the hatch. I raced with them to Bermuda and the hatch stayed dry. The owner has since replaced the hatches.