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Hi all

Anybody know of good online supplier of sheet metal that isnt going to either rip me off on the price of the metal or the postage?.

Ive tried a few local sheet metal companies and there either not interested or the offcuts they chuck arent big enough for what I need.

I need some 2mm and some 1mm

cheers

James

Hi James, you dont really need sheet suppliers as they dont really get involved in bits so to speak, find fabricators, blacksmith type places , I dont know braintree but I will bet a pound (fortune up norf)that I could source it within the hour,
mike

Ive tried mike

It has proved to be quite hard, there wasnt much engineering left in braintree before the reccesion hit, not many small firms that would help are left

james

Service Metals (East Anglia) Ltd
Bay 4
Springwood Drive
Springwood Industrial Estate
Braintree
Essex
CM7 2YN
Tel: 01376 322795
Fax: 01376 322804

Plain sheet pdf gives the sizes that they do

And
clarks racing
cm7 5wh
0131 850729

Waldock sheet metal
cm7 4aa
01376 569369

If these and oldies are no good then they may help who does
mike

Service metals didnt seem interested in the quantity I wanted, dont need a lot just about 500mm by 500mm of 2mm and about 1000mm by 500mm by 1mm.

James

I got some 1mm for free from a local sand-blasting company......I brought my lawnmower to him to blast the deck and he took pity on me and gave me a big lump of 1mm metal (there wasn't much left of the lawnmower after blasting it)
He said it was stuff used to make round bale feeders for cattle.....there was some kind of coating on it, but he blasted it off fairly easily.

Ive heard it all now, galvanised sheeting at greater cost than mild steel, you get it given and the giver expends time to remove the zinc coating. good work
mike

fidget wrote:Service metals didnt seem interested in the quantity I wanted, dont need a lot just about 500mm by 500mm of 2mm and about 1000mm by 500mm by 1mm.

James

Just get it off ebay then - you made it sound as though you wanted large pieces!

I looked on e-bay, as I said not keen on getting shafted for postage .

dont remember saying I wanted big sheets in my first post so not sure where you got that from

James

"The offcuts they chuck arent big enough for what I need"
As you didn't specify approx. dimensions that is all the information that there is to go on! The inference is that you didn't want small pieces.

Just pay the postage - you would most probably spend more than that in fuel driving around the various places.

Are there no road signs where you are?

I get mine from ebay, in 1 foot squares sound price and speed of delivery! Cant find a link at the mo tho!

kevtherev wrote:Are there no road signs where you are?

The guards on the Lathes at work are made from 2mm thick steel, there was an accident with one today

Had to order a new one, thats the 2mm taken care of.

James