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 10460 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Delrin Ball, Medium Pressure 0.093 Ball Dia. X End Force: 0.75 Initial x 2.5 Final
SKU: NW-10460
MPN: 10460
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10460A Press Fit Ball Plunger - Stainless Ball, Medium Pressure 0.125 Body Dia. X End Force: 1.5 Initial x 3.5 Final
SKU: NW-10460A
MPN: 10460A
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10461 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Delrin Ball, Medium Pressure 0.156 Ball Dia. X End Force: 2.0 Initial x 5.0 Final
SKU: NW-10461
MPN: 10461
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10462 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Delrin Ball, Medium Pressure 0.187 Ball Dia. X End Force: 3.0 Initial x 7.0 Final
SKU: NW-10462
MPN: 10462
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10462A Press Fit Ball Plunger - Delrin Ball, Medium Pressure 0.250 Ball Dia. X End Force: 4.0 Initial x 10.0 Final
SKU: NW-10462A
MPN: 10462A
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10463 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Delrin Ball, Medium Pressure 0.312 Ball Dia. X End Force: 5.0 Initial x 14.0 Final
SKU: NW-10463
MPN: 10463
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10464 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Delrin Ball, Medium Pressure 0.437 Ball Dia. X End Force: 8.0 Initial x 18.0 Final
SKU: NW-10464
MPN: 10464
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10465 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Delrin Ball, Heavy Pressure 0.093 Ball Dia. X End Force: 2.0 Initial x 5.0 Final
SKU: NW-10465
MPN: 10465
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10465A Press Fit Ball Plunger - Stainless Ball, Heavy Pressure 0.125 Body Dia. X End Force: 8.0 Initial x 16.0 Final
SKU: NW-10465A
MPN: 10465A
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10466 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Delrin Ball, Heavy Pressure 0.156 Ball Dia. X End Force: 4.0 Initial x 10.0 Final
SKU: NW-10466
MPN: 10466
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10467 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Delrin Ball, Heavy Pressure 0.187 Ball Dia. X End Force: 6.0 Initial x 13.0 Final
SKU: NW-10467
MPN: 10467
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10467A Press Fit Ball Plunger - Delrin Ball, Heavy Pressure 0.250 Ball Dia. X End Force: 8.0 Initial x 16.0 Final
SKU: NW-10467A
MPN: 10467A
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10468 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Delrin Ball, Heavy Pressure 0.312 Ball Dia. X End Force: 10.0 Initial x 18.0 Final
SKU: NW-10468
MPN: 10468
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10469 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Delrin Ball, Heavy Pressure 0.437 Ball Dia. X End Force: 12.0 Initial x 23.0 Final
SKU: NW-10469
MPN: 10469
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10470 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Delrin Ball, Light Pressure 0.093 Ball Dia. X End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.0 Final
SKU: NW-10470
MPN: 10470
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10470A Press Fit Ball Plunger - Stainless Ball, Light Pressure 0.125 Ball Dia. x End Force: 0.75 Initial x 2.0 Final
SKU: NW-10470A
MPN: 10470A
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10471 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Delrin Ball, Light Pressure 0.156 Ball Dia. x End Force: 1.0 Initial x 2.5 Final
SKU: NW-10471
MPN: 10471
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10472 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Delrin Ball, Light Pressure 0.187 Ball Dia. X End Force: 1.5 Initial x 3.5 Final
SKU: NW-10472
MPN: 10472
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10472A Press Fit Ball Plunger - Delrin Ball, Light Pressure 0.250 Ball Dia. X End Force: 2.0 Initial x 5.0 Final
SKU: NW-10472A
MPN: 10472A
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10473 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Delrin Ball, Light Pressure 0.312 Ball Dia. X End Force: 2.5 Initial x 7.0 Final
SKU: NW-10473
MPN: 10473
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10474 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Delrin Ball, Light Pressure 0.437 Ball Dia. X End Force: 4.0 Initial x 9.0 Final
SKU: NW-10474
MPN: 10474
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10480D Smooth - Collared Plunger - Thermoplastic Body with Stainless Ball - Body Length - 3 mm
SKU: NW-10480D
MPN: 10480D
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10480SS Smooth - Collared Plunger - All Stainless - Body Length - 3 mm
SKU: NW-10480SS
MPN: 10480SS
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10481D Smooth - Collared Plunger - Thermoplastic Body with Stainless Ball - Body Length - 4 mm
SKU: NW-10481D
MPN: 10481D