Air Incorporated
- 80/20 supplier. Phone: 800-341-2800. Best to have the cut numbers and
location codes (from an 80/20 catalog) ready for any anchor fastener
counterboring, etc., before you call.
MTI Corporation
- relatively inexpensive materials science research supplies (furnaces,
temp. controllers, crucibles, gloveboxes, benchtop presses, diamond
blade saws, ball mills, nanopowders…); equipment seems generally
reliable, but technical support is of little help.
Copper and brass sales - THE copper and brass supplier. Doesn't always sell small quantities. Ask for Jeremy Jennings, First.last@thyssenkrupp.com
Sequoia Copper and Brass - Cheap copper and brass. Sells small quantities at reasonable prices, but might take a while.
Online Metals
- Good selection, fast shipping, reasonable prices on most things. DO
NOT BUY COPPER HERE… the price is inflated by a factor of 2-3 compared
to Sequoia or Copper and Brass.
McMaster
- Good selection, reasonable prices. Don't buy if you really need a
specific alloy of a metal, since they never provide any sort of material
certification.
Esco Products-unusually fast and inexpensive for custom optics jobs, proven reliable. Also good selection of stock optics, 'especially cheap windows, lenses, etc'
EVAC Vacuum - Unique! Standard QF/ISO hardware, but made out of glass(!), aluminum, etc.
accuglass products
- Unusually nice selection of feedthroughs, in-vacuum electrical
connectors, hardware, etc. Prices better than Lesker. Also have
in-vacuum RF/microwave parts.
MPF Products - Similar to accuglass for electrical feedthroughs, but also has nice selection of viewports
Atlas UHV - UHV grade welded aluminum vacuum chambers. Made the EDM interaction chamber.
Laminar Technologies
- Sells used MKS flow controllers. The Harvard cleanroom manager (Noah
Clay) claims that used flow controllers are better (since they are
screened for infant death), and of course they are cheaper.
Alicat Scientific
- Better flow controllers than MKS (in particular, they do their own
temperature correction). Have ultra-low-flow models. Generally not
suitable for corrosives.