NS Dev
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| posted on 13/1/05 at 09:50 AM |
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Engineering Tool Supply
I have seen a few comments (and thought the same myself) about getting hold of engineering tools wihout peeing around all over the place.
A very good supplier (we use them at work for out tool supply contract, a very big contract at a stel rolling mill!) is Cromwell Tools,
http://www.cromwell.co.uk
these will post stuff, you can collect from nearest branch, are really clued up and do a HUGE catalogue (you know, limitless amounts of stuff right
down to a vast array of carbide lathe tooling etc etc) and the catalogue has prices in it (hooray, a first for a major tool supplier there!) and they
are generally very good. Not the cheapest, but they don't stock crap, just quality engineering stuff.
[Edited on 13/1/05 by NS Dev]
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Hellfire
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| posted on 13/1/05 at 04:51 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by NS Dev
I have seen a few comments (and thought the same myself) about getting hold of engineering tools wihout peeing around all over the place.
A very good supplier (we use them at work for out tool supply contract, a very big contract at a stel rolling mill!) is Cromwell Tools,
http://www.cromwell.co.uk
these will post stuff, you can collect from nearest branch, are really clued up and do a HUGE catalogue (you know, limitless amounts of stuff right
down to a vast array of carbide lathe tooling etc etc) and the catalogue has prices in it (hooray, a first for a major tool supplier there!) and they
are generally very good. Not the cheapest, but they don't stock crap, just quality engineering stuff.
[Edited on 13/1/05 by NS Dev]
What steel rolling mill would that be then? 
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NS Dev
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| posted on 13/1/05 at 05:12 PM |
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Not a Yorkshire one I'm afraid, although we do get the vast majority of or raw billet from Stocksbridge and Rotherham/Thrybergh.
I work for Timken in Desford, formerly TI Tubes or Desford Tubes, now known as "Timken Alloy Steel Europe Ltd".
We are a seamless tube plant (the only full scale one left in the UK) and run a hot piercing mill and 11 cold reducing machines, producing seamless
mechanical tubing. (about 1500 tonnes a week, so rather small in the steel rolling world!)
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greggors84
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| posted on 16/1/05 at 06:15 PM |
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I was reccommended these by a mate who used to work for an engineering firm. Got a few things from them and they are always very helpful even if i am
only buying one drill bit!
Chris
The Magnificent 7!
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