I've been needing some metal that I do not have lately for several projects. I have several choices around town. I can go the cheap rout and buy in bulk trailer loads of full length stuff or pay a little to have it cut in half. That takes easily three hours to get there, wait in a line of trailers and get back with the stuff. Time consuming, but for staples like tube and angle iron nobody can beat the price. I really stock up there. I can go to a place and specify cuts in just about any shape and material I want but I'll pay a premium and mostly reserve that place for when someone else is paying. For small quantities of specific stuff, you can't beat www.onlinemetals.com . Yes you will pay more but you can get a really wide range of smaller things like stainless hex for making nuts. Specific things like those smoothbore tubes I'm using as a rocking point. I like it. I usually have most of the stuff I need because I have shit stacked everywhere. Sometimes though I do need to buy something. Where do you guys go?
Posted on Nov 5, 2009, 7:10 PM from IP address 99.33.77.57
