Vendor List

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See Usernames for a list of logins to some of these vendors.

Also check out ThomasNet or Direct Industry for a searchable vendor list.

Don't forget about the Black List

Thanks to Stan Cotreau and the DeMille group for helping us to put this together.

Buyers guides

Ablation target preparation and testing

  • Applied Test Systems - high-end materials testing and furnaces
  • Futek - Load cells and other sensors
  • MTI Corporation - relatively inexpensive materials science research supplies (furnaces, temp. controllers, crucibles, gloveboxes, benchtop presses, diamond blade saws, ball mills, nanopowders...); equipment seems generally reliable though cheap. Technical support is of little help.
  • Renco Corporation - sells a wide variety of glovebox gloves, but they're a little laggy on responding to quote requests.
  • Sigma-Aldrich - also sells a lot of glovebox gloves and sleeves, and as a "Harvard Marketplace" company, they're very convenient and relatively cheap to order from on HCOM
  • Thermo Scientific - general lab supplies, including furnaces (Please see this note before considering buying from them, though!)

Radiation equipment

  • For radiation inspection, non-emergency cleanup, and radiation labels and waste bins, contact Ken Walker at first_last@harvard.edu.
  • Atlantic Nuclear - radiation safety: shielding, radiation meters, dosimetry
  • Ludlum Measurements - exhaustive assortment of survey meters
  • Canberra - radiation measurement and safety supplies, including radioisotope samples

Chemicals and materials

Ceramics

See also: #Chemicals_and_materials

Metals

See also: #Chemicals_and_materials

Magnet Wire

Insist on desired weight to be wound on a single spool for both suppliers.

Welding

Ramsay Welding - Can do aluminum welding. Has Stan's seal of approval.

Plastics and Composites

Hardware/Machining Supplies/Fasteners

  • McMaster
  • MSC - When McMaster just won't do
  • RAM mounts - Mounts for scopes and other instruments.
  • Vlier - Screws with Springs inside and more.
  • Air Incorporated - 80/20 supplier. Phone: 800-341-2800. Best to have the cut numbers and location codes (from an 80/20 catalog) ready for any anchor fastener counterboring, etc., before you call.
  • Amazing Magnets - Permanent magnets
  • K&J Magnetics - Large selection of rare-earth magnets.
  • Olander - Helicoils, including phosphor bronze and other specialty materials. Don't bother with the website, just call with a part number and tell them the material.
    • Before ordering, it helps to have a part number from a helicoil manufacturer, such as Chrislynn Inserts or Emhart Teknologies. If you need non-magnetic helicoils quickly, MSC sells titanium helicoils in many common sizes.
  • Solon Manufacturing Belleville spring washers in specialty materials, including phosphor bronze
  • United Titanium Titanium fasteners
  • Mutual screw Brass (C260) and silicon bronze fasteners
  • E&T Fasteners PEEK screws and other exotic plastics. Can even get them vented!
  • Accurate Fasteners Local fastener distributor

Razor Blades

  • Cadence Inc., formerly Specialty Blades, has a large selection of razor blades in all shapes and materials.

Optics

Essentials

Frequency-Doubling Crystals

Acousto-Optic and Electro-Optic Modulators

Specialty

Laser Diodes

PMT

Hamamatsu PMT contact Rich at (908) 252-7728 Fax: (732) 537-3678

Electronics

Sensors

  • Micromagnetics Magnetoresistance-based B-field sensors
  • Honeywell Anisotropic magnetoresistance (AMR) magnetic sensors. Noise is < 1 uG/rt-Hz @ 10 Hz. ~20$ each.

Vacuum

  • Manuals from lots of companies for lots of old pumps & controllers

Essentials

Specialty

Cryogenics

Gases and Flow Control

  • MKS Instruments - Flow controllers. To get a login to see prices, go to Usernames.
  • Laminar Technologies - Sells used MKS flow controllers. The Harvard cleanroom manager (Noah Clay) claims that used flow controllers are better (since they are screened for infant death), and of course they are cheaper.

Quasi-Optical, Microwaves

mm-wave Microwave Components

  • Quinstar - Large selection of waveguide and coax, ask for Sage Kuno
  • Miteq - Largest supplier (and stock) but more expensive
  • Penn Engineering - Raw waveguide stock, flanges
  • Atwall - Raw waveguide stock, flanges
  • UBS - Raw waveguide stock, flanges

Optical detectors, PMTs

Coatings, deposition

Electroplating

Diamond-Turned Optics

Actuators and Motion Control

Vibration Isolation

Waterjet

Computers and Computer Hardware

  • Dell Go to www.computers.harvard.edu, and select Dell departmental purchase. You will have to register; use your fas.harvard.edu email. Configure your computer (you can get any system, or a "Harvard standard" system). When checking out you will have to select a shipping address - be careful, if you select "17 Oxford St" from the dropdown list it will probably have somebody else's name attached to it. If this is your first time ordering this way, you will have to manually enter the address with your name as the recipient. For future purchases, find the "17 Oxford St" entry with your name as the recipient. Choose "pay with credit terms". The same warning about the drop-down list applies for the payment address; be sure to select the "Jefferson Business Ofc" or something like that; if you select other addresses with "Jefferson" in the name it will go to somebody else (for example a secretary in the HETG).
  • Dell's Harvard Pricing WARNING: they are not necessarily cheaper than dell.com
  • NewEgg Computer accessories. WARNING: they do not accept POs.
  • Lenovo Harvard Pricing Departmental and Personal
  • For CDW order, send PO to Mecca Nnacheta meccnna@cdw.com

Office Supplies

  • Office Depot Fax 800-685-5010
  • B&H - HCOM marketplace vendor with lots of office supplies, including printer cartridges of all descriptions

Food, etc

Black List

Think twice before buying from these vendors.

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