Online Metals Blog

Our friends over at S G Machine shared with us some of the beautiful things they make with OnlineMetals Materials!

From hangers and stands…

to Screens and Wall Art…

These guys know what they’re doing.

We’re proud to have them as a customer and a partner!

OnlineMetals now carries Shim Stock!!!

What is that, and what is it used for???

Well, it’s basically sheet material, cut into various shapes.

Shim stock is used in the installation of machine components. They allow you to align, level, and balance the component without having to remove and reinstall it repeatedly.

You can buy Shim Stock in flat pieces:

Coils:

Slotted Shims:

or Discs:

…and all at OnlineMetals.com!

Who says it’s not romantic? Jewelery is romantic, and it’s made out of metal. Precious metal, but metal none the less.

Well…we noticed that there are a number of “Traditional Anniversary Presents” that have to do with products we sell. Here they are:

Sixth - Iron

Seventh - Copper

Eighth - Bronze

Tenth - Tin, Aluminum

Eleventh - Steel

Twentyfifth - Silver

So now you know…

Did you get one of our snazzy Discount Code Cards at Christmas? (If you didn’t…you have one now!)

10% off all items, all orders, all the time!

Well, that code will expire in less than 2 weeks. Now’s the time to take advantage of this 10% discount, which doubles to 20% if your order is over $100.

Tell your friends…

Tell your family…

Visit our site!

Buy now, and save!

OK, so you’re thinking about a specific part. Some little piece that you’ve designed in your mind, that is now a CRITICAL part of your over all project’s design.

Problem is, you know you can’t build that part in your shop. So, now what!?!

“OnlineMetals can’t do it.” You think to yourself.

But then you remember that OnlineMetals aligns itself with other industry leading companies for exactly this reason.

ShortRun Pro allows you to design, fabricate, and build metal parts immediately.

Counter top brackets, computer and TV mounts, customized guards and connectors. You name it!

They’ve been a partner of ours for years, and we’re pleased to send people their way.

Call (877) 829-9293 or visit http://www.shortrunpro.com/ today.

Eric ordered some Bronze Round Bar.

It was an average order, and one we were happy to fill. Looks like we did a pretty good job though. Here’s an e-mail we recently received…

Thank You,

I would like to state that I am beyond happy with your customer service and attentiveness to customer needs after the sale. Will look forward to doing business again.

Eric

Thanks for sharing this with us Eric. Pleasure doing business with you.

All sorts of people come to the OnlineMetals warehouse in Seattle. Every visit is a welcome one!

Today, we got a visit from Erin’s Webkin elephant, Kookie.

First Kookie stopped by the Will Call desk to pick up his metal order…

Then he hung out in our shipping department for a while…

On his way out, he stopped in to say Hi to the office staff. Here he is making friends with Diogi. (I think they’re telling each other secrets.)

Thanks for coming by Kookie. We love doing business with you, and hope to see you again soon!

Yep, our blog is going to be seen by millions and gazillions of new bloggers through a site called Technorati.

Technorati Profile

Why are we writing this, and what does it mean to you?

Why:
Well…we needed to put a snazzy little code into a post to verify our blog:
“< a href=”http://technorati.com/claim/codecodecode” rel=”me” >Technorati Profile< / a> ”

Why should you care:
Stay with me on this one….

More traffic=More sales!
More sales=More Money!
More Money=More employees!
More Employees=We can cut more material!
We can cut more=we can sell more!
We can sell more=You Can buy More!

…which leads to more sales, higher volume, volume discounts, and so on!

It’s a big glorious spiral people! Which all wraps into the fact that you can buy more cool stuff from us for less money.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! It’s GENIUS!!!

…and we love it.

Now back to work.

Online Metals,

Thanks for all your help. You guys offer a great service and we like the low prices on small rem’s in your will call area.

(OnlineMetals Will Call)

We manufacture hydraulic deck equipment for the marine industry around the world. Here are a few pictures of our Yacht winches used to raise and lower anchors. These units are hand polished 316L stainless steel.
Thank you,
Jim
www.jkfabrication.com

(Side note from OLM: These guys do some seriously great work. We don’t do any sort of fabrication, so we refer local maritime customers to these guys. Haven’t been disappointed yet! Give em a call.)

Paul wrote in, and shared this project with us:

He used OnlineMetals Materials to build the handle bars.

“I ordered 4 feet of 1.25 inch OD steel tubing with a 1 inch ID. Mocked up the bars using PVC tubing. Once I figured out the angle so they wouldn’t hit the tank when I turned, I cut the steel tube to length on the bars and 2, 6 inch pieces for the grips, created a template to drill the dimples, Drilled’em, welded’em and chromed’em. They didn’t turn out half bad.”

No, they definitely didn’t Paul. We love it when our customers take some of our dull, inexpensive material and make something beautiful out of it.

This:

Into these:

Thanks for sharing it with us!