…is an awesome company. (but UPS is not) If you haven’t heard of them before, go to www.mcmaster.com right now.
I ordered 3 R8 collets from them just before the holidays and UPS lost my package. The tracking showed delivered to “front door” but it never made it to my apartment. I sent an email to McMaster and within an hour they had shipped out a replacement order. A few days later (Christmas eve) UPS showed it delivered, but yet again it was not at my apartment. After pleading with UPS to help me figure out where my packages are going I gave up and called McMaster again. Without any hassle at all they shipped out yet another order, this time with some delivery instructions for the driver. I finally got my 3 collets. My credit card was charged automatically for all three orders, but they posted credits for two of the orders within a few days.
I might have my stuff shipped to work now, but McMaster is always going to be my first choice supplier from now on.
You may have heard this scenario before:
You’re on a game show and the host has you pick one of three doors. You win whatever is behind your door. Behind one of the doors is a car. Behind the other two doors are goats. You choose one of the doors. The host then opens one of the doors you did not choose to reveal a goat, and gives you the opportunity to switch your choice. Will switching give you a better chance of winning?
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Sometimes you buy things from Ebay and when you open the box they’re smaller than expected. But…
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I found some videos that I took of the first prototype of the Logo Bot drawing a side of a snowflake on the kitchen floor. The robot has been decommissioned, the parts waiting to be transplanted to v2.0 which will be in the works.
Check out the Logo Bot project page.
I usually do all my own auto-repairs, but lately just don’t have the time, and my truck had to go in for service. I had to cough up roughly 1/5th the worth of the vehicle to replace a bunch of stuff in the front end. So now I’m thinking “economy” and wondering what I can do to make it cheaper to drive.
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Harbor Freight has a sale right now, and if you’re on their email list, you probably get a new coupon just about every day. I had a 15% off coupon and “needed” some odds and ends, so I took a trip to Worcester to check out their nearest retail location.
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Last week I decided I had to have this welder. I’d actually been looking at MIG welding machines for a few years, but just couldn’t justify buying one. I have access to a fab shop, I’ve taken a short intro to welding class, now I’m building a tubing bender out of some pretty thick steel, and I need something pretty heavy duty to weld it up anyway. Perfect timing!
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