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Old 12-22-2006 | 12:56 AM
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Default RE: Lathe for conversions

Actualy, they are the back door of MSC. Some of the stuff is the same as what MSC sells, only at a lesser price. I found this out a couple years back when I was using a lot of the little 1" face with 0.250" travel. Enco got a batch in that was different than the last ones, and they were just enogh different that I couldn't use them. One pass through their Customer service and they sent me another dozen of the same ones. I found the MSC sold them also and I talked to their Customer service and they "hand picked" from their supply and shipped them to me. They had the same stickers on the box as the ones I had bought before from Enco, just $5 a piece more. I did a Yahoo Maps lookup of their address's and they are back to back in a block in Fernley NV. A little more checking and I found that Enco was bought out by MSC a few years back.

You always want to check their "Hot Deals" catalog before ordering and if what you want is in there, use that item number vs the one you find in their yearly catalog or on the web. There is quite a difference in the prices some times and if you use the standard item number, you pay the standard price. I found that out yesterday when I was ordering some metric drill rod. Rather than look up the price in the HotDeals catalog, I just used the item from the web search. before I sent in the order, I went through the Hotdeals and found that the ones I wanted were on sale, and I saved over 40% on some of them just by using the correct number.

Don