{"id":8338,"date":"2006-07-27T19:49:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-27T23:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2006\/07\/27\/mcmaster-carr\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:34:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:34:39","slug":"mcmaster-carr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2006\/07\/27\/mcmaster-carr\/","title":{"rendered":"McMaster-Carr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcmaster.com\">McMaster-Carr<\/a> has really impressed me.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday evening I ordered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuxx.net\/wiki_archive\/A\/MIDIbox_SID-NUXX_-_Enclosure#Fasteners\">these parts<\/a> and paid $4 in shipping. When I arrived home from work today, all the parts were waiting on the porch.<\/p>\n<p>Wow. Just, wow.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, I had to order 100 of each piece of screw which I wanted, but I was able to get the <em>exact<\/em> parts needed. And the cost was only around US$0.05\/each anyway.<\/p>\n<p>No trying to make-things-work with the hardware found at Lowes or Home Depot.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll definitely be ordering from them again next time I need mechanical parts&#8230; Or whatever else they carry, for that matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, McMaster-Carr has really impressed me. Yesterday evening I ordered these parts and paid $4 in shipping. When I arrived home from work today, all the parts were waiting on the porch. Wow. Just, wow. Sure, I had to order 100 of each piece of screw which I wanted, but I was able to get\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,11,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquired-things","category-making-things","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13291,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8338\/revisions\/13291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}