Mike Gordon on tue 21 sep 04
Hey,
Ever hear of a scrap yard? They sell all kinds of angle iron, plate,you
name it and cheap. All you have to do is cut it with a cutting torch to
size, grind it smooth with a right angle grinder and weld! OR have a
welder do it for you. Scrap yards are a gold mine waiting to be picked
over. MIke Gordon
On Sep 21, 2004, at 2:12 PM, pdp1@EARTHLINK.NET wrote:
> Most places that sell Steel,
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pdp1@EARTHLINK.NET on tue 21 sep 04
Most places that sell Steel, in fact all such places that I
ever visited, were friendly, and to some degree, flexible,
and happy to work with a small outfit as seemed together
with their shopping list.
Steel such as cold-rolled sections like Angle-Iron, comes in
30 foot sticks, and, places as sell it also often have
'rems' or remnants from whole sticks, from when they either
fabricate things or cut them to fill orders as stipulate
pre-cut lengths.
The 'rems' are usually sold by the pound at a reduced rate
from when full length, or, when short, are given away free
depending on their size and the policies of the company or
the mood of the person one is dealing with.
Overall, these materials are inexpensive, and, of course,
the shorties, or rems, moreso...
If having sections cut to length by the Steel selling
outfit, one will have to usually pay a minimum hourly charge
(35 or 60 dollars or something) as may not be worth it.
Also, if they shear the pieces from longer ones, the force
of the shear and the dies and cutters used, will distort the
ends where the material has been cut, which maybe is not so
good for one's project. Hence, if you do want them to
shear-cut and distort the pieces for you, you may ask that
they be Sawn instead, and, ideally, with a Liquid Cooled
Toothed Blade kind of Saw, and not an 'abrasive' one, but,
either of which, regardless, will not occasion any
distortion of the ends, allthough the Abrasive kind of Saw
will blue them from the heats.
These kinds of sections are easily enough cut with a Hacksaw
( useing a nice 'new' Blade), or, more easily maybe, with an
electric Jig-Saw useing a Steel Cutting Blade, a slowish
speed, and being well lubricated with Bees-Wax.
Abrasive Cut-Off-Saws are nasty noisy things and I do not
like them, and would not own one, but they do work in their
way to cut Steel sections...
Anyway...
Phil
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jacob Runyan"
> Thanks to all who have replied, both on and off list.
>
> We will be ordering the steel tomorrow, hopefully have
> everything ready for firing by next weekend.
>
> Hopefully everything will go well.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> jacob runyan
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