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 10624 Press-Thru-Ball-Plunger / Delrin Ball / Light Pressure: End Pressure (Lbs): 2.0 Start, 5.0 Full; A: .312; B: .688; C: .090; Ball Dia. D: .250
SKU: NW-10624
MPN: 10624
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10625 Press-Thru-Ball-Plunger / Delrin Ball / Light Pressure: End Pressure (Lbs): 2.5 Start, 7.0 Full; A: .375; B: .864; C: .110; Ball Dia. D: .312
SKU: NW-10625
MPN: 10625
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10626 Press-Thru-Ball-Plunger / Delrin Ball / Light Pressure: End Pressure (Lbs): 4.0 Start, 9.0 Full; A: .500; B: 1.218; C: .161; Ball Dia. D: .437
SKU: NW-10626
MPN: 10626
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10628 Press-Thru-Ball-Plunger / Delrin Ball / Medium Pressure: End Pressure (Lbs): 0.75 Start, 2.5 Full; A: .125; B: .284; C: .035; Ball Dia. D: .093
SKU: NW-10628
MPN: 10628
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10628A Press-Thru-Ball-Plunger / Delrin Ball / Light Pressure: End Pressure (Lbs): 1.5 Start, 3.5 Full
SKU: NW-10628A
MPN: 10628A
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10629 Press-Thru-Ball-Plunger / Delrin Ball / Medium Pressure: End Pressure (Lbs): 2.0 Start, 5.0 Full; A: .188; B: .440; C: .058; Ball Dia. D: .156
SKU: NW-10629
MPN: 10629
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10630 Press-Thru-Ball-Plunger / Delrin Ball / Medium Pressure: End Pressure (Lbs): 3.0 Start, 7.0 Full; A: .250; B: .525; C: .070; Ball Dia. D: .187
SKU: NW-10630
MPN: 10630
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10631 Press-Thru-Ball-Plunger / Delrin Ball / Medium Pressure: End Pressure (Lbs): 4.0 Start, 10.0 Full; A: .312; B: .688; C: .090; Ball Dia. D: .250
SKU: NW-10631
MPN: 10631
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10632 Press-Thru-Ball-Plunger / Delrin Ball / Medium Pressure: End Pressure (Lbs): 5.0 Start, 14.0 Full; A: .375; B: .864; C: .110; Ball Dia. D: .312
SKU: NW-10632
MPN: 10632
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10633 Press-Thru-Ball-Plunger / Delrin Ball / Medium Pressure: End Pressure (Lbs): 8.0 Start, 18.0 Full; A: .500; B: 1.218; C: .161; Ball Dia. D: .437
SKU: NW-10633
MPN: 10633
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10635 Press-Thru-Ball-Plunger / Delrin Ball / Heavy Pressure: End Pressure (Lbs): 2.0 Start, 5.0 Full; A: .125; B: .284; C: .035; Ball Dia. D: .093
SKU: NW-10635
MPN: 10635
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10635A Press-Thru-Ball-Plunger / Delrin Ball / Light Pressure: End Pressure (Lbs): 3.0 Start, 7.5 Full
SKU: NW-10635A
MPN: 10635A
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10636 Press-Thru-Ball-Plunger / Delrin Ball / Heavy Pressure: End Pressure (Lbs): 4.0 Start, 10.0 Full; A: .188; B: .440; C: .058; Ball Dia. D: .156
SKU: NW-10636
MPN: 10636
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10637 Press-Thru-Ball-Plunger / Delrin Ball / Heavy Pressure: End Pressure (Lbs): 6.0 Start, 13.0 Full; A: .250; B: .525; C: .070; Ball Dia. D: .187
SKU: NW-10637
MPN: 10637
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10638 Press-Thru-Ball-Plunger / Delrin Ball / Heavy Pressure: End Pressure (Lbs): 8.0 Start, 16.0 Full; A: .312; B: .688; C: .090; Ball Dia. D: .250
SKU: NW-10638
MPN: 10638
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10639 Press-Thru-Ball-Plunger / Delrin Ball / Heavy Pressure: End Pressure (Lbs): 10.0 Start, 18.0 Full; A: .375; B: .864; C: .110; Ball Dia. D: .312
SKU: NW-10639
MPN: 10639
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10640 Press-Thru-Ball-Plunger / Delrin Ball / Heavy Pressure: End Pressure (Lbs): 12.0 Start, 23.0 Full; A: .500; B: 1.218; C: .161; Ball Dia. D: .437
SKU: NW-10640
MPN: 10640
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10701 Press Thru Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressure, Heat Treated Nose - Black Oxide Finish / End Force: 1.0 Initial x 2.0 Final
SKU: NW-10701
MPN: 10701
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10701A Press Thru Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressure, Heat Treated Nose - Black Oxide Finish / End Force: 1.25 Initial x 3.25 Final
SKU: NW-10701A
MPN: 10701A
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10701AEX Press Thru™ Spring Plungers with Extended Travel
SKU: NW-10701AEX
MPN: 10701AEX
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10701EX Press Thru™ Spring Plungers with Extended Travel
SKU: NW-10701EX
MPN: 10701EX
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10702 Press Thru Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressure, Heat Treated Nose - Black Oxide Finish / End Force: 1.5 Initial x 4.5 Final
SKU: NW-10702
MPN: 10702
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10702EX Press Thru™ Spring Plungers with Extended Travel
SKU: NW-10702EX
MPN: 10702EX
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10703 Press Thru Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressure, Heat Treated Nose - Black Oxide Finish / End Force: 2.5 Initial x 6.0 Final
SKU: NW-10703
MPN: 10703