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 33254 Metric Spring Plungers - Standard Lengths - Light Pressures - With Lock. Element - Heat Treated Steel Nose, End Force: 4.5 Initial x 11.0 Half x 18.0 Full
SKU: NW-33254
MPN: 33254
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33254P Metric Spring Plungers - Standard Lengths - Light Pressures - Without Lock. Element - Heat Treated Steel Nose, End Force: 4.5 Initial x 11.0 Half x 18.0 Full
SKU: NW-33254P
MPN: 33254P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33254SS Stainless Steel Metric Spring Plungers - M6 x 1.0 - With Locking Element
SKU: NW-33254SS
MPN: 33254SS
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33255 Metric Spring Plungers - Standard Lengths - Light Pressures - With Lock. Element - Heat Treated Steel Nose, End Force: 6.5 Initial x 13.5 Half x 20.0 Full
SKU: NW-33255
MPN: 33255
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33255P Metric Spring Plungers - Standard Lengths - Light Pressures - Without Lock. Element - Heat Treated Steel Nose, End Force: 6.5 Initial x 13.5 Half x 20.0 Full
SKU: NW-33255P
MPN: 33255P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33255SS Stainless Steel Metric Spring Plungers - M8 x 1.25 - With Locking Element
SKU: NW-33255SS
MPN: 33255SS
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33256 Metric Spring Plungers - Standard Lengths - Light Pressures - With Lock. Element - Heat Treated Steel Nose, End Force: 12.5 Initial x 22.5 Half x 32.0 Full
SKU: NW-33256
MPN: 33256
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33256P Metric Spring Plungers - Standard Lengths - Light Pressures - Without Lock. Element - Heat Treated Steel Nose, End Force: 12.5 Initial x 22.5 Half x 32.0 Full
SKU: NW-33256P
MPN: 33256P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33256SS Stainless Steel Metric Spring Plungers - M10 x 1.5 - With Locking Element
SKU: NW-33256SS
MPN: 33256SS
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33257 Metric Spring Plungers - Standard Lengths - Light Pressures - With Lock. Element - Heat Treated Steel Nose, End Force: 12.0 Initial x 26.5 Half x 41.5 Full
SKU: NW-33257
MPN: 33257
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33257P Metric Spring Plungers - Standard Lengths - Light Pressures - Without Lock. Element - Heat Treated Steel Nose, End Force: 12.0 Initial x 26.5 Half x 41.5 Full
SKU: NW-33257P
MPN: 33257P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33257SS Stainless Steel Metric Spring Plungers - M12 x 1.75 - With Locking Element
SKU: NW-33257SS
MPN: 33257SS
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33300 Short Spring Plungers - Light Pressures - With Lock. Element - White Delrin Nose, End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.0 Half x 1.5 Full
SKU: NW-33300
MPN: 33300
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33300H Hex Drive "Short" Steel Spring Plungers - Net lbs Per 100 - 1/2
SKU: NW-33300H
MPN: 33300H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33300HP Hex Drive "Short" Steel Spring Plungers - Net lbs Per 100 - 1/2
SKU: NW-33300HP
MPN: 33300HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33300P "Short" Spring Plungers - Light Spring Pressures - Without Lock. Ele.; End Pressures - Start: 0.5, 1/2: 1.0, Full:1.5
SKU: NW-33300P
MPN: 33300P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33301 Standard Length Spring Plungers - Light Pressures - With Lock Element - White Delrin Nose, End Force: 0.7 Initial x 1.5 Half x 2.3 Full
SKU: NW-33301
MPN: 33301
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33302P Short Spring Plungers - Light Pressures - With Lock. Element - White Delrin Nose, End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.0 Half x 1.5 Full
SKU: NW-33302P
MPN: 33302P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33303 Standard Length Spring Plungers - Light Pressures - With Lock Element - White Delrin Nose, End Force: 1.3 Initial x 2.0 Half x 2.7 Full
SKU: NW-33303
MPN: 33303
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33303P Standard Length Spring Plungers - Light Pressures - Without Lock Element - White Delrin Nose, End Force: 1.3 Initial x 2.0 Half x 2.7 Full
SKU: NW-33303P
MPN: 33303P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33304 Short Spring Plungers - Light Pressures - With Lock. Element - White Delrin Nose, End Force: 0.75 Initial x 1.62 Half x 2.5 Full
SKU: NW-33304
MPN: 33304
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33304H Hex Drive "Short" Steel Spring Plungers - Net lbs Per 100 - 1/2
SKU: NW-33304H
MPN: 33304H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33304HP Hex Drive "Short" Steel Spring Plungers - Net lbs Per 100 - 1/2
SKU: NW-33304HP
MPN: 33304HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33304M Metric Short Spring Plungers - Light Spring Pressures - Brown Delrin Nose
SKU: NW-33304M
MPN: 33304M