As ridiculous as it sounds, Metal Supermarkets don't seem to be eager to supply what I am looking for, namely Brass tubing, Copper tubing and 1018 steel rods. I used to buy from them all the time but now there seem to have been some changes as the people I dealt with are all gone and the stores even look different.
Alternative to the Metal Supermarkets in GTA
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Copper pipe can be had in any plumbing supply place. Crappy Tire has copper pipe. Mind you, an industrial supply place will likely be a bit cheaper. For the other two, look in the Yellow Pages under 'pipe' and 'metal' of all things.
Yellow pages. Look under steel suppliers, or metal.
Expect to get raped, if you are after small qty's or cut to length stuff.
On the non-ferrious stuff, there are usually a couple outfits around that deal specifically in brass or copper.
What's the project? What kind of volume are you looking at? Can you pick up? One time buy? Certs required? Oddball alloys?
Most of the metals suppliers we deal with want to sell full sticks and charge stupid amounts to cut, if they will at all. But they are far cheaper, if you can afford to buy a bundle of full length sticks. FWIW.
Some will sell you sticks and allow you to cut it yourself, if you can, others won't deal except if you have an account (no cash sales)
Last time I saw anything weird as far as metal went, our engineers had spec'd an alloy steel tube by material, wall thickness and diameter. When we went for quotes, we found that getting it was no problem. 20 ton minimum run, and about six months lead time, to get the particular tubing shipped from a mill in Spain.
They found something "available" that would work. Go figure.
Cheers
Trev
Expect to get raped, if you are after small qty's or cut to length stuff.
On the non-ferrious stuff, there are usually a couple outfits around that deal specifically in brass or copper.
What's the project? What kind of volume are you looking at? Can you pick up? One time buy? Certs required? Oddball alloys?
Most of the metals suppliers we deal with want to sell full sticks and charge stupid amounts to cut, if they will at all. But they are far cheaper, if you can afford to buy a bundle of full length sticks. FWIW.
Some will sell you sticks and allow you to cut it yourself, if you can, others won't deal except if you have an account (no cash sales)
Last time I saw anything weird as far as metal went, our engineers had spec'd an alloy steel tube by material, wall thickness and diameter. When we went for quotes, we found that getting it was no problem. 20 ton minimum run, and about six months lead time, to get the particular tubing shipped from a mill in Spain.
They found something "available" that would work. Go figure.
Cheers
Trev
I need several full sticks, one each steel rod, copper pipe and brass pipe.
But that might turn out to be too expensive and I will have to fall back to steel pipe instead of brass.
