Bob Minchin

Are there any importers of Grizzly tools in the UK?

They will ship to UK but the item I want is only a quarter of their minimum
export order value.

TIA

Bob

Peter Neill

On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:40:26 GMT, "Bob Minchin"
<bob.minchin@OEnewsreader.com> wrote:

>Are there any importers of Grizzly tools in the UK?
>
>They will ship to UK but the item I want is only a quarter of their minimum
>export order value.
>
>TIA
>
>Bob
>

Buy a bit more then <G>

Is it not possible to get whatever-it-is through any UK source?

Peter

Michael

"Bob Minchin" <bob.minchin@OEnewsreader.com> wrote in message
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> Are there any importers of Grizzly tools in the UK?
>
> They will ship to UK but the item I want is only a quarter of their
> minimum
> export order value.
>
> TIA
>
> Bob
>
>

You could always find someone in the US to send it you......

Michael

jontom_1uk@hotmail.com

On 22 Jul, 20:40, "Bob Minchin" <bob.minc...@OEnewsreader.com> wrote:
> Are there any importers of Grizzly tools in the UK?
>
> They will ship to UK but the item I want is only a quarter of their minimum
> export order value.
>
> TIA
>
> Bob

Bob

I don't know of any Grizzly importer but Axminster do some Jet and the
two seem to stock similar items in the states (quality/price arguments
apart). If you let us know what it is you are looking for perhaps
someone will know a direct UK importer, I assume much of it comes from
the same OEMs these days?

Keith

Steve R.

"Bob Minchin" <bob.minchin@OEnewsreader.com> wrote in message
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> Are there any importers of Grizzly tools in the UK?
>
> They will ship to UK but the item I want is only a quarter of their
> minimum
> export order value.
>
> TIA
>
> Bob
>
>

Grizzly is just an importer of Taiwan, and Chinese tools. Busy Bee, and
House of Tools, in Canada carry the same stuff. A few years ago, Warco, in
the UK, admitted that they get their lathes from the same source.


Steve R.



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mark

On 23 Jul, 01:28, "Steve R." <***********@*************.***> wrote:
> "Bob Minchin" <bob.minc...@OEnewsreader.com> wrote in message
>
> news:KoOoi.383$rr5.134@newsfe1-win.ntli.net...
>
> > Are there any importers of Grizzly tools in the UK?
>
> > They will ship to UK but the item I want is only a quarter of their
> > minimum
> > export order value.
>
> > TIA
>
> > Bob
>
> Grizzly is just an importer of Taiwan, and Chinese tools. Busy Bee, and
> House of Tools, in Canada carry the same stuff. A few years ago, Warco, in
> the UK, admitted that they get their lathes from the same source.
>
> Steve R.
>
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my guess is this tool

it's about the only one that isn't sold here in the uk

http://www.grizzly.com/products/H7762

all the best.mark

Bob Minchin

"mark" <aboard_epsilon@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> On 23 Jul, 01:28, "Steve R." <***********@*************.***> wrote:
> > "Bob Minchin" <bob.minc...@OEnewsreader.com> wrote in message
> >
> > news:KoOoi.383$rr5.134@newsfe1-win.ntli.net...
> >
> > > Are there any importers of Grizzly tools in the UK?
> >
> > > They will ship to UK but the item I want is only a quarter of their
> > > minimum
> > > export order value.
> >
> > > TIA
> >
> > > Bob
> >
> > Grizzly is just an importer of Taiwan, and Chinese tools. Busy Bee, and
> > House of Tools, in Canada carry the same stuff. A few years ago, Warco,
in
> > the UK, admitted that they get their lathes from the same source.
> >
> > Steve R.
> >
> > --
> > Return address munged, to bugger up spammers!
>
> my guess is this tool
>
> it's about the only one that isn't sold here in the uk
>
> http://www.grizzly.com/products/H7762
>
> all the best.mark
>


Thanks for all your replies guys.

Mark: No cigar mate! I'm after part no H7583

SteveR: Very helpful- Thanks both BB and H-o-T have something similar and
I've mailed them for shipping quotes.

Michael: I am following your suggestion up on a woodworking forum.

Do we have any US readers on this NG?

Peter N: The UK equivalent is nearly 4x the US price before shipping.

Best regards

Bob

Peter Neill

On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:05:07 GMT, "Bob Minchin"
<bob.minchin@OEnewsreader.com> wrote:

>
>
>
>Thanks for all your replies guys.
>
>Mark: No cigar mate! I'm after part no H7583
>
>SteveR: Very helpful- Thanks both BB and H-o-T have something similar and
>I've mailed them for shipping quotes.
>
>Michael: I am following your suggestion up on a woodworking forum.
>
>Do we have any US readers on this NG?
>
>Peter N: The UK equivalent is nearly 4x the US price before shipping.
>
>Best regards
>
>Bob
>

Bob, I seem to remember that there have been quite a few UK people
wanting equipment from Grizzly, several of them after the grinder that
Mark mentioned.

Maybe if they can can put their hands up on here you could get
together and organise a group buy that would meet the minimum order
value for Grizzly to ship?
I have a feeling that some of them may have been on the HSM forum or
Yahoo groups, so perhaps it may be worth sticking a post on those.

Peter

MikeH_QB

On 24 Jul, 07:39, Peter Neill <panuno95-uk...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:05:07 GMT, "Bob Minchin"
>
>
>
>
>
> <bob.minc...@OEnewsreader.com> wrote:
>
> >Thanks for all your replies guys.
>
> >Mark: No cigar mate! I'm after part no H7583
>
> >SteveR: Very helpful- Thanks both BB and H-o-T have something similar and
> >I've mailed them for shipping quotes.
>
> >Michael: I am following your suggestion up on a woodworking forum.
>
> >Do we have any US readers on this NG?
>
> >Peter N: The UK equivalent is nearly 4x the US price before shipping.
>
> >Best regards
>
> >Bob
>
> Bob, I seem to remember that there have been quite a few UK people
> wanting equipment from Grizzly, several of them after the grinder that
> Mark mentioned.
>
> Maybe if they can can put their hands up on here you could get
> together and organise a group buy that would meet the minimum order
> value for Grizzly to ship?
> I have a feeling that some of them may have been on the HSM forum or
> Yahoo groups, so perhaps it may be worth sticking a post on those.
>
> Peter- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

I would have thought that as mentioned previously, Grizzly just import
from the same Chineses OEM manufacturers as everyone else in the
world. Also, you will be getting 110v kit if you import from the US,
so thats another consideration. Seems a lot of bother & cost! Perhaps
a direct approach to someone like Axminster might be worthwhile,
especially if you could 'guarantee' a reasonable number of purchasers?

Mike

mark

On 24 Jul, 09:51, MikeH_QB <MikeHur_2...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On 24 Jul, 07:39, Peter Neill <panuno95-uk...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:05:07 GMT, "Bob Minchin"
>
> > <bob.minc...@OEnewsreader.com> wrote:
>
> > >Thanks for all your replies guys.
>
> > >Mark: No cigar mate! I'm after part no H7583
>
> > >SteveR: Very helpful- Thanks both BB and H-o-T have something similar and
> > >I've mailed them for shipping quotes.
>
> > >Michael: I am following your suggestion up on a woodworking forum.
>
> > >Do we have any US readers on this NG?
>
> > >Peter N: The UK equivalent is nearly 4x the US price before shipping.
>
> > >Best regards
>
> > >Bob
>
> > Bob, I seem to remember that there have been quite a few UK people
> > wanting equipment from Grizzly, several of them after the grinder that
> > Mark mentioned.
>
> > Maybe if they can can put their hands up on here you could get
> > together and organise a group buy that would meet the minimum order
> > value for Grizzly to ship?
> > I have a feeling that some of them may have been on the HSM forum or
> > Yahoo groups, so perhaps it may be worth sticking a post on those.
>
> > Peter- Hide quoted text -
>
> > - Show quoted text -
>
> I would have thought that as mentioned previously, Grizzly just import
> from the same Chineses OEM manufacturers as everyone else in the
> world. Also, you will be getting 110v kit if you import from the US,
> so thats another consideration. Seems a lot of bother & cost! Perhaps
> a direct approach to someone like Axminster might be worthwhile,
> especially if you could 'guarantee' a reasonable number of purchasers?
>
> Mike- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Yeah 110 volt .mmmmmmm

love that grinder ....just looking at it ,and it says to you .....I am
your ever loyal grinder ...and designed to sharpen your lathe tools
both accurately and speedily.

perhaps john can have a word with his pal in arc euro-trade.

all the best...mark

Bob543

mark Wrote:
> On 24 Jul, 09:51, MikeH_QB <MikeHur_2...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > On 24 Jul, 07:39, Peter Neill <panuno95-uk...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:05:07 GMT, "Bob Minchin"
> >
> > > <bob.minc...@OEnewsreader.com> wrote:
> >
> > > >Thanks for all your replies guys.
> >
> > > >Mark: No cigar mate! I'm after part no H7583
> >
> > > >SteveR: Very helpful- Thanks both BB and H-o-T have something
> similar and
> > > >I've mailed them for shipping quotes.
> >
> > > >Michael: I am following your suggestion up on a woodworking
> forum.
> >
> > > >Do we have any US readers on this NG?
> >
> > > >Peter N: The UK equivalent is nearly 4x the US price before
> shipping.
> >
> > > >Best regards
> >
> > > >Bob
> >
> > > Bob, I seem to remember that there have been quite a few UK people
> > > wanting equipment from Grizzly, several of them after the grinder
> that
> > > Mark mentioned.
> >
> > > Maybe if they can can put their hands up on here you could get
> > > together and organise a group buy that would meet the minimum
> order
> > > value for Grizzly to ship?
> > > I have a feeling that some of them may have been on the HSM forum
> or
> > > Yahoo groups, so perhaps it may be worth sticking a post on those.
> >
> > > Peter- Hide quoted text -
> >
> > > - Show quoted text -
> >
> > I would have thought that as mentioned previously, Grizzly just
> import
> > from the same Chineses OEM manufacturers as everyone else in the
> > world. Also, you will be getting 110v kit if you import from the US,
> > so thats another consideration. Seems a lot of bother & cost!
> Perhaps
> > a direct approach to someone like Axminster might be worthwhile,
> > especially if you could 'guarantee' a reasonable number of
> purchasers?
> >
> > Mike- Hide quoted text -
> >
> > - Show quoted text -
>
> Yeah 110 volt .mmmmmmm
>
> love that grinder ....just looking at it ,and it says to you .....I am
> your ever loyal grinder ...and designed to sharpen your lathe tools
> both accurately and speedily.
>
> perhaps john can have a word with his pal in arc euro-trade.
>
> all the best...mark
Hi, Im new here ,just reading through the threads at the moment.
You can get an identical grinder from Harbour Freight.
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=46727


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BRAD

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> mark Wrote:
>> On 24 Jul, 09:51, MikeH_QB <MikeHur_2...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> > On 24 Jul, 07:39, Peter Neill <panuno95-uk...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > > On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:05:07 GMT, "Bob Minchin"
>> >
>> > > <bob.minc...@OEnewsreader.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > > >Thanks for all your replies guys.
>> >
>> > > >Mark: No cigar mate! I'm after part no H7583
>> >
>> > > >SteveR: Very helpful- Thanks both BB and H-o-T have something
>> similar and
>> > > >I've mailed them for shipping quotes.
>> >
>> > > >Michael: I am following your suggestion up on a woodworking
>> forum.
>> >
>> > > >Do we have any US readers on this NG?
>> >
>> > > >Peter N: The UK equivalent is nearly 4x the US price before
>> shipping.
>> >
>> > > >Best regards
>> >
>> > > >Bob
>> >
>> > > Bob, I seem to remember that there have been quite a few UK people
>> > > wanting equipment from Grizzly, several of them after the grinder
>> that
>> > > Mark mentioned.
>> >
>> > > Maybe if they can can put their hands up on here you could get
>> > > together and organise a group buy that would meet the minimum
>> order
>> > > value for Grizzly to ship?
>> > > I have a feeling that some of them may have been on the HSM forum
>> or
>> > > Yahoo groups, so perhaps it may be worth sticking a post on those.
>> >
>> > > Peter- Hide quoted text -
>> >
>> > > - Show quoted text -
>> >
>> > I would have thought that as mentioned previously, Grizzly just
>> import
>> > from the same Chineses OEM manufacturers as everyone else in the
>> > world. Also, you will be getting 110v kit if you import from the US,
>> > so thats another consideration. Seems a lot of bother & cost!
>> Perhaps
>> > a direct approach to someone like Axminster might be worthwhile,
>> > especially if you could 'guarantee' a reasonable number of
>> purchasers?
>> >
>> > Mike- Hide quoted text -
>> >
>> > - Show quoted text -
>>
>> Yeah 110 volt .mmmmmmm
>>
>> love that grinder ....just looking at it ,and it says to you .....I am
>> your ever loyal grinder ...and designed to sharpen your lathe tools
>> both accurately and speedily.
>>
>> perhaps john can have a word with his pal in arc euro-trade.
>>
>> all the best...mark
> Hi, Im new here ,just reading through the threads at the moment.
> You can get an identical grinder from Harbour Freight.
> http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=46727
>
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**** Just received an email from 'harborfreight' about the grinder.......the
online catalogue shows the price as $164.99 but the email they sent me
states that shipping to the UK will be $200.......which, if I'm right, would
make the grinder approx £ 182.50.
It would be great if there was a UK stockist/importer for these grinders.
Brad.

Trevor Jones

BRAD wrote:

>
> **** Just received an email from 'harborfreight' about the grinder.......the
> online catalogue shows the price as $164.99 but the email they sent me
> states that shipping to the UK will be $200.......which, if I'm right, would
> make the grinder approx £ 182.50.
> It would be great if there was a UK stockist/importer for these grinders.
> Brad.
>
>

Dunno what the Airline Sales prices are like in your neck of the
woods, but you are getting near to a shipping cost that makes "go get it
yourself" look like a reasonable option.

I wish I could fly home as cheap as some of the fares I have seen for
going halfway round the planet!

For $200 US, they must nearly be buying it it's own seat on a pretty
spiff airplane. With actual pretty flight attendants!

Egad...

As a fairly longtime reader of ME, it looks like someone is doing you
lot over the barrel, as far as retail prices go.

I often see the same or higher numbers attached to adverts for new
import Asian tooling that I expect to see here in Canada, except that I
know that a Canuck dollar will buy a little less than half a Pound.
Someone's screwing over the customers along the way.

Cheers
Trevor Jones

Steve R.

<Huge snip>
>>
>
> **** Just received an email from 'harborfreight' about the
> grinder.......the online catalogue shows the price as $164.99 but the
> email they sent me states that shipping to the UK will be
> $200.......which, if I'm right, would make the grinder approx £ 182.50.
> It would be great if there was a UK stockist/importer for these grinders.
> Brad.

One problem with Grizzly for UK customers, is distance, not just the
Atlantic ocean either! Their main store is in Bellingham Washington, on the
west coast. I bought my rotary table there while returning from a motorcycle
trip to California. So you can add 3,000 more miles to the distance! They do
have an outlet in the eastern US, but, if memory serves me correctly, it
too, is well inland.

There is a House of Tools about 15 miles from me, so I could probably
inquire about anything of interest for regulars on this NG.



Steve R.



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ChrisQuayle

Trevor Jones wrote:
> BRAD wrote:
>
>>
>> **** Just received an email from 'harborfreight' about the
>> grinder.......the online catalogue shows the price as $164.99 but the
>> email they sent me states that shipping to the UK will be
>> $200.......which, if I'm right, would make the grinder approx £ 182.50.
>> It would be great if there was a UK stockist/importer for these grinders.
>> Brad.
>>
>
> Dunno what the Airline Sales prices are like in your neck of the
> woods, but you are getting near to a shipping cost that makes "go get it
> yourself" look like a reasonable option.
>
> I wish I could fly home as cheap as some of the fares I have seen for
> going halfway round the planet!
>
> For $200 US, they must nearly be buying it it's own seat on a pretty
> spiff airplane. With actual pretty flight attendants!
>
> Egad...
>
> As a fairly longtime reader of ME, it looks like someone is doing you
> lot over the barrel, as far as retail prices go.
>

Perhaps not the vendor - I ship a lot of kit to the states, including
heavy items and $200 looks pretty cheap compared to uk -> us prices.
That grinder weighs 104lbs, well over 40 kilos. If I want to send 40
kgms to the states, www.interparcel.com (usually the best prices), gives
me a figure of 121.00 uk pounds.

Postal costs have risen considerably in the uk in the past year or so,
to the point that it's usually more economic to ship by courier. And
forget parcelforce - their prices are usually double or even 3 times
courier prices for anything international over 2Kgms small packet rate...

Chris

Steve R.

"ChrisQuayle" <nospam@devnul.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Trevor Jones wrote:
>> BRAD wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> **** Just received an email from 'harborfreight' about the
>>> grinder.......the online catalogue shows the price as $164.99 but the
>>> email they sent me states that shipping to the UK will be
>>> $200.......which, if I'm right, would make the grinder approx £ 182.50.
>>> It would be great if there was a UK stockist/importer for these
>>> grinders.
>>> Brad.
>>>
>>
>> Dunno what the Airline Sales prices are like in your neck of the woods,
>> but you are getting near to a shipping cost that makes "go get it
>> yourself" look like a reasonable option.
>>
>> I wish I could fly home as cheap as some of the fares I have seen for
>> going halfway round the planet!
>>
>> For $200 US, they must nearly be buying it it's own seat on a pretty
>> spiff airplane. With actual pretty flight attendants!
>>
>> Egad...
>>
>> As a fairly longtime reader of ME, it looks like someone is doing you
>> lot over the barrel, as far as retail prices go.
>>
>
> Perhaps not the vendor - I ship a lot of kit to the states, including
> heavy items and $200 looks pretty cheap compared to uk -> us prices. That
> grinder weighs 104lbs, well over 40 kilos. If I want to send 40 kgms to
> the states, www.interparcel.com (usually the best prices), gives me a
> figure of 121.00 uk pounds.
>
> Postal costs have risen considerably in the uk in the past year or so, to
> the point that it's usually more economic to ship by courier. And forget
> parcelforce - their prices are usually double or even 3 times courier
> prices for anything international over 2Kgms small packet rate...
>
> Chris

That reminds me of something that happened in the 1960s. I had a management
position in a hotel. As chance would have it, a hotel guest worked for one
of the UK model engineer suppliers. While in conversation with him, I asked
why his firms catalogue did not list overseas shipping rates, or even
shipping weights. He became quite upset, and informed me that the UK rates
were the same as Canadian rates to the UK. Of course, that was nonsense! It
cost way less to send a parcel from Canada to the UK. In those days, the
shipping/postal charges were based on weight only in Canada. Now there is a
complicated formula based on weight, and dimensions of the parcel. I believe
it is still less costly to ship from Canada to the UK.

Steve R.


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