McMaster-Carr Supply Company

Uh, a lot of the bearings and whatnot that you see, most of them you can find, um, because they're just general bearings from FAG or SKF.

Um, you can find them almost anywhere, McMaster-Carr, Grainger, whatever.

You just have to know where to look.

But it's all out there.

...

McMaster-Carr's headquarters is, like, 25 minutes out

... was it Elmhurst, right?

Yeah.

... uh, hand sanders-

Mm-hmm

... sleds, I, I can't find them cheaper than McMaster-Carr anywhere.

Yeah.

I like to dive into, like, a thing, be deep into it, get it finished, and then move on to the next thing, and I've got these two things going at the same time, just because I've been waiting for, like, orders to come in and...

All I could say is, and Matt and, and Shannon, we've, we've talked about this in the past, uh, thank goodness for McMaster-Carr.

[laughs]

Uh, the, the shipping on their stuff is insanely fast.

You're not a maker.

You've, like, you've always said that you hate that term, and you're gonna go there under that umbrella?

Dude, I just shopped at McMaster-Carr.

[laughs]

Seeing the raw material cost for, like, the blanks of CODA, it's 6061 T6.

You can buy these billets off of Home Depot, McMaster-Carr, couple hundred bucks.

There's nothing fancy about it.

The scientists weren't actually purchasing these specific materials through a hardware store checkout line, but the project did require stripping the telescope down to its manufacturing basics.