The wife just got a gig working for Grainger, so I gotta back the home team. (WOO HOO! Good money & better bennies than I have! [Linked Image] ) They still have a better overall supply of (regular) tools, motors, general equipment, fans & pumps (of course, fans and motors are what they started out with).

But when it comes to hard-to-find-ware such as weird screws, metal & plastic stock, and mecha-nickel type stuff, McM has 'em beat. The McM catalog always reminded me of the old hardware store in your hometown, as a kid, put on paper. (Pulleys, turnbuckles, and nails, oh my!) You can just imagine the old guy with the 1/2 glasses in the plaid flannel shirt, painter's jeans, and canvas nail apron (with a pencil behind his ear, of course) saying "Oh, you need a left-handed conduit stretcher? We got one in back, I think. Hold on a second" as he wanders off behind the bins full of roofing nails and the rack of conduit...