Online Metals Blog

Cut Away! Metal Repair Spray

We thought it was about time that we put together an official OnlineMetals “Dress Code.” Although we’re a .com, and we do what we want, there are times when outsiders come to visit and we don’t know what the heck to do.

Until today!

Current state of the OnlineMetals Wardrobe: DRESSCON - 5!

…to a receipt near you!

If your order is being fulfilled in our new Ohio facility, (The Official Grand Opening is November 1st.) then the following graphic will grace the bottom of your paper receipt:
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Just another way that the OnlineMetals team is having fun while providing the best customer service possible!

With the recent fire in our server storage building, and the new OLM location opening up, we thought it was time to update our office’s safety signs.

Here were some of our favorites:

What would you Twitter? “I’m on fire?”





Side Note: We do not sleep on the job! (We nap.)





Oh yeah, that’s going up at lunch!





Love it!

We decided that our warehouse looked a little too much like a broken down old warehouse, and not enough like an inviting storefront for local customers.

So…we gave the Will Call a makeover! It’s the second round of Will Call improvements, actually…but necessary, for sure!

BEFORE:

AFTER:

* New Diamond Plate base and support C bracket for full length bars.
* Cleaner, more organized shelves.
* Better signage.
* Fresh paint.
* …and a Diamond Plate Push pad and kick plate on the door, so that the boys in the warehouse don’t get metal grease fingerprints all over it. DON’T TOUCH MY DOOR!!! lol

BEFORE:

AFTER:

It’s light weight, it’s thin, it’s aluminum, and it’s here.

We didn’t think 1/8 inch was thin enough, so we’ve added 1/16 wall aluminum angle and flat bar!

Yeah, I know…that’s practically aluminum foil. But this stuff holds it’s shape WAY better than a roll of Reynolds!

.062 6063 Aluminum Angle and .062 6061 Aluminum Flat Bar

I’ve been hard pressed to find another supplier for this material, so tell your friends!

Old way: Drop Down Menu

New way: Radio Buttons

Zoomed In:

Why?
*Easier for some.
*More aesthetically pleasing for others.
*JUST BECAUSE WE CAN!!!

Hope you like it!

OK, so I didn’t know I was doing it, but still!!!

It’s my job as the Marketing Director to give you accurate pictures of each and every product, and when it comes to Polycarbonate Plate, I FAILED YOU!!! I had the clear poly sheet photo listed on the Machinable Polycarbonate Page!
WHAT was I thinking!?!
That’s almost a fireable offense!
Tuesday’s food fight was OK…but this is just unacceptable. Anyway,

WRONG: Clear Poly (…and my thumb.)

RIGHT: Machinable Plate (no thumb.)

Yeah, it’s fixed now, but I feel that I still owe you an apology. It will NEVER EVER EVER happen again.
…I think.
…not sure.
…but I’ll do my bestest.

In the mean time, buy some stuff, and have a great weekend!!!

Happy Friday,
Amber
Marketing Director!

Stuart wrote in this morning to talk about his experience with our website:

“I just wanted to swing you folks a line to say thanks for a great website. I use it all the time for both business and personal reasons, at work and home respectively of course…

But I work in the DOD supply field, where all my customers and vendors are still using and designing their websites for, IE6, while I prefer faster open source alternatives such as Google Chrome. And while most of their websites render well enough you can just tell when something doesn’t render exactly right. Your website on the other hand renders exactly the same in chrome, ie6, firefox, and safari, no matter what operating system I’m on, be it XP, OS X, or Ubuntu. So thanks for taking the time and resources to create a great cross browser and cross platform website.

I will continue to use, enjoy, and purchase from your website.

Thanks,
Stuart “

As soon as I saw this, I knew it should be on the blog.  As a thank you to Stuart for writing in and being an OLM customer, and also as thanks to our IT demi-god, Chris, for working so hard to keep our site user friendly.

It’s a pleasure to be one of the people who shares ideas with Chris…and then gets to watch as he makes those ideas a reality.

Stuart, thanks again. There’s a lot more on the horizon, and we can’t wait to share it with you.

Sorry for the blatantly obvious product plug…it’s just that this is one of our newest items, and it’s becoming a SERIOUS hit amongst OLMers!

There’s COLD DRAWN 303

and HOT ROLLED 303

…and, as usual, we’ll cut it to length, and ship it right to your door.