Northwestern Tools
Northwestern Tools: Premium Industrial Solutions
Quality Industrial Tools from Your Trusted Michigan Distributor for Northwestern Tools
Freer Tool & Supply distributes professional Northwestern Tools precision industrial components engineered for demanding manufacturing applications. As your trusted Michigan distributor for Northwestern Tools, we provide the complete range of over 2,000 domestic, high-quality components including hoist rings, spring and ball plungers, thread inserts, fixturing and locating components, knobs and handles, tooling components and clamping, and washers.
About Northwestern Tools
Northwestern Tools, a family run organization, opened for business on January 27, 1942 by Gene Thomeczek, who foresaw an industry need for quality machine tooling.
From our beginnings on Northwestern Avenue in Dayton, Ohio, the people at Northwestern Tools have continued to dedicate themselves to fulfillng this vision. Northwestern Tools is still owned and actively managed by the Thomeczek family, ensuring a continuation of this commitment.
For the last 75 years, Northwestern Tools has grown from an initial offering of just 4 products, to over 2,000 domestic, high quality components to service our customers.
This growth forced Northwestern to move to our present Hempstead Station Dr. location in 2018 to house the growing production needs.
Expanding Into New Markets
As we have continually grown our product lines, we have been able to expand into new markets and industries such as:
- Aerospace
- Medical
- Fasteners
- Lifting & material handing (with the addition of ADB hoist rings)
Adding Automation to Manufacturing Process
Recently, we added two new CNC (computer numerical control) machining centers and other automated specialized machinery to our manufacturing facility to improve our throughput and allow us to continue to offer low-cost, high-value products.
We constantly review our products and our markets for new items to introduce to our customers, and to make sure that we have the most complete offering in each one of our product categories.
Strong Employee Base
Now being run by a second generation of Thomeczeks, Northwestern has kept the "family atmosphere" alive within our employees, evidenced by our employee retention rate. A third of our employees have over 20 years with the company.
Reasons for Our Success
The years of growth at Northwestern Tools can be attributed to our original philosophy:
- Offer excellent quality products
- Produce products with American labor and American parts
- Offer at a reasonable price
- Sell directly and through a national network of industrial distributors
- Deliver promptly
- Ship the same day - achieved on 99% of all orders.
Though the majority of business comes from Northwestern's standard product line, special needs products can be developed to meet customer requirements.
Our story of success is simple. Take an idea, do it very well, mix in a good measure of quality, service, and same day shipping, and you have our commitment to you.
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10363 Metric Ball Plungers - Steel Metric Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 11.1 Initial x 22.2 Final, Ball Dia: 4.75
SKU: NW-10363
MPN: 10363
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10364 Metric Ball Plungers - Steel Metric Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 22.2 Initial x 44.5 Final, Ball Dia: 4.75
SKU: NW-10364
MPN: 10364
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10365 Metric Ball Plungers - Steel Metric Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 26.7 Initial x 93.4 Final, Ball Dia: 4.75
SKU: NW-10365
MPN: 10365
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10366 Metric Ball Plungers - Steel Metric Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 13.3 Initial x 26.7 Final, Ball Dia: 7.14
SKU: NW-10366
MPN: 10366
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10367 Metric Ball Plungers - Steel Metric Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 26.7 Initial x 53.4 Final, Ball Dia: 7.14
SKU: NW-10367
MPN: 10367
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10368 Metric Ball Plungers - Steel Metric Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 26.7 Initial x 133.4 Final, Ball Dia: 7.14
SKU: NW-10368
MPN: 10368
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10369 Metric Ball Plungers - Steel Metric Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 20.0 Initial x 40.0 Final, Ball Dia: 9.52
SKU: NW-10369
MPN: 10369
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10370 Metric Ball Plungers - Steel Metric Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 40.0 Initial x 80.0 Final, Ball Dia: 9.52
SKU: NW-10370
MPN: 10370
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10371 Metric Ball Plungers - Steel Metric Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 31.1 Initial x 222.4 Final, Ball Dia: 9.52
SKU: NW-10371
MPN: 10371
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10400 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Stainless Ball, Medium Pressure 0.093 Ball Dia. X End Force: 0.75 Initial x 2.5 Final
SKU: NW-10400
MPN: 10400
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10400A Press Fit Ball Plunger - Stainless Ball, Medium Pressure 0.125 Body Dia. X End Force: 1.5 Initial x 3.5 Final
SKU: NW-10400A
MPN: 10400A
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10401 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Stainless Ball, Medium Pressure 0.156 Ball Dia. X End Force: 2.0 Initial x 5.0 Final
SKU: NW-10401
MPN: 10401
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10402 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Stainless Ball, Medium Pressure 0.187 Ball Dia. X End Force: 3.0 Initial x 7.0 Final
SKU: NW-10402
MPN: 10402
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10402A Press Fit Ball Plunger - Stainless Ball, Medium Pressure 0.250 Ball Dia. X End Force: 4.0 Initial x 10.0 Final
SKU: NW-10402A
MPN: 10402A
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10403 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Stainless Ball, Medium Pressure 0.312 Ball Dia. X End Force: 5.0 Initial x 14.0 Final
SKU: NW-10403
MPN: 10403
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10404 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Stainless Ball, Medium Pressure 0.437 Ball Dia. X End Force: 8.0 Initial x 18.0 Final
SKU: NW-10404
MPN: 10404
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10405 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Stainless Ball, Heavy Pressure 0.093 Ball Dia. X End Force: 2.0 Initial x 5.0 Final
SKU: NW-10405
MPN: 10405
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10405A Press Fit Ball Plunger - Stainless Ball, Heavy Pressure 0.125 Body Dia. X End Force: 4.0 Initial x 10.0 Final
SKU: NW-10405A
MPN: 10405A
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10406 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Stainless Ball, Heavy Pressure 0.156 Ball Dia. X End Force: 4.0 Initial x 10.0 Final
SKU: NW-10406
MPN: 10406
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10407 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Stainless Ball, Heavy Pressure 0.187 Ball Dia. X End Force: 6.0 Initial x 13.0 Final
SKU: NW-10407
MPN: 10407
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10407A Press Fit Ball Plunger - Stainless Ball, Heavy Pressure 0.250 Ball Dia. X End Force: 8.0 Initial x 16.0 Final
SKU: NW-10407A
MPN: 10407A
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10408 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Stainless Ball, Heavy Pressure 0.312 Ball Dia. X End Force: 10.0 Initial x 18.0 Final
SKU: NW-10408
MPN: 10408
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10409 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Stainless Ball, Heavy Pressure 0.437 Ball Dia. X End Force: 12.0 Initial x 23.0 Final
SKU: NW-10409
MPN: 10409
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10410 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Stainless Ball, Light Pressure 0.093 Ball Dia. X End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.0 Final
SKU: NW-10410
MPN: 10410