Grainger was pretty nice to us when we said we were from IBM. Evidently there was a national account that had a pretty good volume. They opened a retail store here and we all went down to the grand opening. We filled out a card for an account and the guy called me back and asked if we just wanted to be added to the main account. I said sure.
$150 motors and such were $50-60.
The last time I used that number there was a discount but not a huge one.
If it works, it works. Sometimes you do, what you gotta do. More times than not, I have to do workarounds just there are no warehouses in B.F. remote Alaska. You make do until you can get the right parts and you wrap it up on the next trip