Help: Looking for IBM timing belt replacement.

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I could use a timing belt for a '68 Chevy...

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--- John Lawson <jpl15 at panix.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, Joe R. wrote:
> 
> >   I doubt McMaster Carr will be of any help. You have to have an account
> > with them AND a tax number before they'll sell to you. And that's even if
> > you walk into one of their locations. I doubt they'd even talk to you if
> 
>    Um, that's just the opposite of my own experience - I buy from them all 
> the time - just got a roll of magnet wire in to re-build a motor - gave 
> 'em my credit-card and shipping address and it showed up the next day. 
> Ditto with the cool little Whitney-Roper hand metal-punch kit. Ditto with 
> the timer for my little pressure-washer.
> 
>    You sure you aren't thinking Grainger? Those boys can be obtuse when 
> they want to.  But I've never had a bit of the trouble you relate, with 
> McMaster, for many years now. Strange...
> 
>    Stock Drive Components is a great outfit, and have a lot of the more 
> obscure stuff that is sometimes needed in restoring Old Gear.
> 
> 
>   Cheers
> 
> John
> 
> 


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