I wonder what platform / framework / language was used to make this website?
Mcmaster.com is the best e-commerce site I've ever used
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We had piles of their yellow books laying around the house when I was a grad student. Definitely good toilet-book material.
Lucky. When I was in Engineering school, the Mechanical Engineering department had one catalog. We couldn't get any more - something about limited numbers printed (though, I'll confess I never tried to get my own). It was passed around among the students in Machine Design as if it were some sacred scroll.
Totally, it used to be a right of passage. You'd get your first job and (usually share) a copy of the machinerys handbook, and a yellow mcmaster book. I used to keep at least one at home long into the days where you don't need it anymore "just in case the internet goes down". It was those 2 books, the pemn 3 ring binder, and the ryerson catalog to know what mill sizes there were in what metals.
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#243Totally agree - yet they still don't have countersunk M7 that I needed so badly (apparently I managed to get it from Volvo)
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#244McMaster is a great choice when you can value your time. There is no comparison shipping. You need an industrial tricycle that gets the job done? Great. Add an industrial tricycle to your cart. Unless there is a meaningful difference between models, there will be only one choice. It will be curated and it will do what you generally expect it to do. You'll pay more than you can get it for elsewhere, but it will do the…
It’s arguably similar to the value proposition Apple brings to a lot of their customers. Time is money, and having things just work the way they’re supposed to seems to get rarer and rarer. Or maybe I’m just getting older, I dunno. I wish we had more firms that still valued quality and proper customer service in this world. Too much chinesium junk out there these days, in a race to the bottom that everyone loses.
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#245I wonder what platform / framework / language was used to make this website?
Seems to be React with .NET
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#246> Your Browser Is No Longer Supported
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Yes, I'm on an old laptop, but it works with most sites. No way to even let the current browser try. Kind of a fail, if you ask me.
Edit: mcmaster.com works fine. bedelstein.com is the problem. It's just a blog. It should render well enough, even with an old browser.
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#247I disagree with one thing: I usually go to Mcmaster to browse. I often have a problem, and I know that it must be a relatively common problem with an elegant solution, but I'm not experienced enough in that area to know what the solution is. Browse through the catalogue for a while and sure enough, there's a widget that's specifically designed to solve your problem. The design of the website makes it really easy to d…
There's also something weird with the way they programmed the site itself, which prevents you from opening certain links in a separate browser tab. it's really annoying when I'm not sure exactly what I need and I want to read all 10 product descriptions or whatever. I end up having to copy and paste the product URL and work backwards, rather than going all through the parts-filtering flow 10 times over from the begin…
Does opening product detail pages in separate tabs not work for your workflow?
Tangential note: you can open a part number's product detail page via this URL, /" rel="nofollow">https://www.mcmaster.com//
And all part numbers will have the form: (4 or 5 integers)(1 capital letter A-Z)(1, 2, or 3 integers)
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We use these in military aviation across the world. Stupidly useful when you’ve got 100+ lbs of tools to run out to a down aircraft that needs fixed to make a mission. Also in shipyards, for similar reasons.
I can't talk about details but I know of large industry-leading aerospace manufacturers who don't use MMC for flight parts because they need batch-level part tracking for failure investigations, and MMC doesn't offer that.
I wasn't talking about using MMC for aviation parts; I was referring to the industrial tricycles.
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Next time he’ll buy $20 worth of bolts and pay $80.
What's a good place for well priced bolts if I'm not worried about next day shipping but need them to not be made of pot metal?
Bolt Depot? The Voron folks seem to like them, but I haven't ever ordered from them.