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Posted by Mark Rand on September 28, 2006, 5:07 pm
Please log in for more thread options On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:12:33 GMT, paul.morrey@ntlworld.com wrote:
>Hi
>
>I was wondering if anyone had any contacts, suppliers etc. for small
>pieces of steel for machining at home?
>I was looking for a small length (around 200mm) of 35 X 25 or closest
>commercial size in something like 230MO7.
>Ideally somebody in North staffs or South Cheshire would be ideal as I
>could collect because postage on heavy items is expensive.
>I seem to remember somebody mentioning a supplier near to Crewe but I
>can`t think where I had this info from.
>Any help gratefully received.
>
>Thanks
>
>Paul
Not what you want to hear necessarily, but...
Don't buy short lengths unless you have no alternative. Go to someone like
Macready's :-
http://www.macreadys.co.uk/facilities/index.html
or look for steel stockholders in the yellow pages and buy full lengths. If
you buy more than 50-60kg at a time the price comes down further usually.
or look for "engineer's merchants possibly" to find a general engineering firm
on an industrial estate near you with a box of offcuts.
Mark Rand
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>
> I was wondering if anyone had any contacts, suppliers etc. for small
> pieces of steel for machining at home?
> I was looking for a small length (around 200mm) of 35 X 25 or closest
> commercial size in something like 230MO7.
> Ideally somebody in North staffs or South Cheshire would be ideal as I
> could collect because postage on heavy items is expensive.
> I seem to remember somebody mentioning a supplier near to Crewe but I
> can`t think where I had this info from.
> Any help gratefully received.
>
> Thanks
>
> Paul