Applied Industrial Technologies

These guys are absolutely awesome. I have recently taken up a project rebuilding a 40 year old motorcycle engine. In the process, I discovered that I needed to replace most of the bearings in the engine. I had no idea where to go for any such thing or how to tell what I needed.
After spending a combined total of maybe 6 hours scouring the internet for as much information as I could on bearings, I talked to a friend who recommended Applied Industrial Technologies. I went to their website and found that they had the most robust searching options I could have hoped for. I found everything thing I needed there, except one bearing which I could only find on one website in Italy and couldn’t read anything about its availability. Slowly I came to the conclusion that one of the bearings I needed is obsolete and I may not be able to get it at all.
Early one Friday morning I went to Applied Industrial’s storefront. I met with a very knowledgeable and friendly fellow there named Brendon, who painstakingly measured every bearing and oil seal I had.
He ran into a little confusion with the one bearing that I could not find, but managed to find a stock house that had it and didn’t charge me an arm & a leg for it.
In all, I didn’t really spend that much money there, but their sales assistance was stellar. I will certainly go to them again, the next time I decide to rebuild something that I’m really not qualified to rebuild.