The "good" ol' days of Small Parts

[Ian Curtis]

Originally Posted by techhelpbb

Pretty sure I still have a printed Small Parts catalog.
Yes...there once was a time when companies printed catalogs

Some suppliers still have print catalogs far superior to their web catalogs... Whenever I buy parts for my '29 Ford I have to look the part numbers up in the print catalog and enter them into the web form since the web catalog is so completely useless.

[techhelpbb]

Originally Posted by Ian Curtis

Some suppliers still have print catalogs far superior to their web catalogs... Whenever I buy parts for my '29 Ford I have to look the part numbers up in the print catalog and enter them into the web form since the web catalog is so completely useless.

With old items somethings you can find interesting things.

I have a small grey snow blower from my Grandfather.
It needed a few small parts.
My Grandmother had a dusty old Sears catalog in her effects that showed it.

I thought I was being funny when I went to Sears and asked for the parts under the warranty.
1 month later they sent me every single part for free under the Craftsman lifetime warranty (this thing is easily 50 years old).

I get the impression that scene from "Indiana Jones..." with the Arc of The Covenant was filmed in a Sears warehouse...

[Matt C]

I still have one of those coins.

They were used in THIS.

I seem to recall this being in the middle of the pits at the 2001 "FIRST National" in Epcot. That was my senior year of high school.

Every single bit of your robot had to be traceable to a catalog number. I remember scouring the thing looking for things with potential alternate uses.