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 33998 Hand Retractable Plungers - Long Reach - Standard Length - Locking Plungers - Phenolic Nose - Stainless Steel
SKU: NW-33998
MPN: 33998
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34001 Wrenches - For Ball and Spring Plungers, For plungers with thread sizes: #6
SKU: NW-34001
MPN: 34001
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34002 Wrenches - For Ball and Spring Plungers, For plungers with thread sizes: #8 and M4
SKU: NW-34002
MPN: 34002
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34003 Wrenches - For Ball and Spring Plungers, For plungers with thread sizes: #10 and M5
SKU: NW-34003
MPN: 34003
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34004 Wrenches - For Ball and Spring Plungers, For plungers with thread sizes: 1/4 and M6
SKU: NW-34004
MPN: 34004
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34005 Wrenches - For Ball and Spring Plungers, For plungers with thread sizes: 5/16 and M8
SKU: NW-34005
MPN: 34005
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34006 Wrenches - For Ball and Spring Plungers, For plungers with thread sizes: 3/8 and M10
SKU: NW-34006
MPN: 34006
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34007 Wrenches - For Ball and Spring Plungers, For plungers with thread sizes: 1/2 and M12
SKU: NW-34007
MPN: 34007
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34008 Wrenches - For Ball and Spring Plungers, For plungers with thread sizes: 5/8
SKU: NW-34008
MPN: 34008
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34009 Wrenches - For Ball and Spring Plungers, For plungers with thread sizes: 3/4
SKU: NW-34009
MPN: 34009
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34010 Wrenches - For Ball and Spring Plungers, For plungers with thread sizes: 1"
SKU: NW-34010
MPN: 34010
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34020 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Locking - Steel - Heavy Pressure, End Force: 1.0 Initial x 3.0 Full
SKU: NW-34020
MPN: 34020
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34022 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Locking - Steel - Heavy Pressure, End Force: 1.0 Initial x 5.0 Full
SKU: NW-34022
MPN: 34022
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34024 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Locking - Steel - Heavy Pressure, End Force: 1.5 Initial x 6.0 Full
SKU: NW-34024
MPN: 34024
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34026 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Locking - Steel - Heavy Pressure, End Force: 1.5 Initial x 8.0 Full
SKU: NW-34026
MPN: 34026
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34028 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Locking - Steel - Heavy Pressure, End Force: 2.5 Initial x 10.0 Full
SKU: NW-34028
MPN: 34028
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34029 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Locking - Steel - Heavy Pressure, End Force: 5.0 Initial x 10.0 Full
SKU: NW-34029
MPN: 34029
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34030 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Locking - Steel - Light Pressure, End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.5 Full
SKU: NW-34030
MPN: 34030
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34032 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Locking - Steel - Light Pressure, End Force: 0.5 Initial x 2.5 Full
SKU: NW-34032
MPN: 34032
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34034 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Locking - Steel - Light Pressure, End Force: 0.75 Initial x 3.0 Full
SKU: NW-34034
MPN: 34034
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34036 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Locking - Steel - Light Pressure, End Force: 0.75 Initial x 4.0 Full
SKU: NW-34036
MPN: 34036
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34038 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Locking - Steel - Light Pressure, End Force: 1.25 Initial x 5.0 Full
SKU: NW-34038
MPN: 34038
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34039 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Locking - Steel - Light Pressure, End Force: 3.0 Initial x 6.0 Full
SKU: NW-34039
MPN: 34039
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34040 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Locking - Stainless Steel - Heavy Pressure, End Force: 1.0 Initial x 3.0 Full
SKU: NW-34040
MPN: 34040