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 10410A Press Fit Ball Plunger - Stainless Ball, Light Pressure 0.125 Ball Dia. x End Force: 0.75 Initial x 2.0 Final
SKU: NW-10410A
MPN: 10410A
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10411 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Stainless Ball, Light Pressure 0.156 Ball Dia. x End Force: 1.0 Initial x 2.5 Final
SKU: NW-10411
MPN: 10411
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10412 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Stainless Ball, Light Pressure 0.187 Ball Dia. X End Force: 1.5 Initial x 3.5 Final
SKU: NW-10412
MPN: 10412
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10412A Press Fit Ball Plunger - Stainless Ball, Light Pressure 0.250 Ball Dia. X End Force: 2.0 Initial x 5.0 Final
SKU: NW-10412A
MPN: 10412A
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10413 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Stainless Ball, Light Pressure 0.312 Ball Dia. X End Force: 2.5 Initial x 7.0 Final
SKU: NW-10413
MPN: 10413
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10414 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Stainless Ball, Light Pressure 0.437 Ball Dia. X End Force: 4.0 Initial x 9.0 Final
SKU: NW-10414
MPN: 10414
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10420 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Stainless Ball, Medium Pressure 0.093 Ball Dia. X End Force: 0.75 Initial x 2.5 Final
SKU: NW-10420
MPN: 10420
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10420A Press Fit Ball Plunger - Stainless Ball, Medium Pressure 0.125 Body Dia. X End Force: 1.5 Initial x 3.5 Final
SKU: NW-10420A
MPN: 10420A
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10421 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Stainless Ball, Medium Pressure 0.156 Ball Dia. X End Force: 2.0 Initial x 5.0 Final
SKU: NW-10421
MPN: 10421
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10422 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Stainless Ball, Medium Pressure 0.187 Ball Dia. X End Force: 3.0 Initial x 7.0 Final
SKU: NW-10422
MPN: 10422
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10422A Press Fit Ball Plunger - Stainless Ball, Medium Pressure 0.250 Ball Dia. X End Force: 4.0 Initial x 10.0 Final
SKU: NW-10422A
MPN: 10422A
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10423 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Stainless Ball, Medium Pressure 0.312 Ball Dia. X End Force: 5.0 Initial x 14.0 Final
SKU: NW-10423
MPN: 10423
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10424 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Stainless Ball, Medium Pressure 0.437 Ball Dia. X End Force: 8.0 Initial x 18.0 Final
SKU: NW-10424
MPN: 10424
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10425 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Stainless Ball, Heavy Pressure 0.093 Ball Dia. X End Force: 2.0 Initial x 5.0 Final
SKU: NW-10425
MPN: 10425
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10425A Press Fit Ball Plunger - Stainless Ball, Heavy Pressure 0.125 Body Dia. X End Force: 8.0 Initial x 16.0 Final
SKU: NW-10425A
MPN: 10425A
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10426 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Stainless Ball, Heavy Pressure 0.156 Ball Dia. X End Force: 4.0 Initial x 10.0 Final
SKU: NW-10426
MPN: 10426
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10427 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Stainless Ball, Heavy Pressure 0.187 Ball Dia. X End Force: 6.0 Initial x 13.0 Final
SKU: NW-10427
MPN: 10427
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10427A Press Fit Ball Plunger - Stainless Ball, Heavy Pressure 0.250 Ball Dia. X End Force: 8.0 Initial x 16.0 Final
SKU: NW-10427A
MPN: 10427A
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10428 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Stainless Ball, Heavy Pressure 0.312 Ball Dia. X End Force: 10.0 Initial x 18.0 Final
SKU: NW-10428
MPN: 10428
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10429 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Stainless Ball, Heavy Pressure 0.437 Ball Dia. X End Force: 12.0 Initial x 23.0 Final
SKU: NW-10429
MPN: 10429
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10430 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Stainless Ball, Light Pressure 0.093 Ball Dia. X End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.0 Final
SKU: NW-10430
MPN: 10430
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10430A Press Fit Ball Plunger - Stainless Ball, Light Pressure 0.125 Ball Dia. x End Force: 0.75 Initial x 2.0 Final
SKU: NW-10430A
MPN: 10430A
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10431 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Stainless Ball, Light Pressure 0.156 Ball Dia. x End Force: 1.0 Initial x 2.5 Final
SKU: NW-10431
MPN: 10431
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10432 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Stainless Ball, Light Pressure 0.187 Ball Dia. X End Force: 1.5 Initial x 3.5 Final
SKU: NW-10432
MPN: 10432