Buy aluminum sheets?
03-23-2004, 10:59 PM
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Buy aluminum sheets? Anyone know where I can go to pick up some small sheets of aluminum? Not alot and nothing crazy heavy duty...just like 4mm thick stuff. Thanks!
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If you can't find what you need you can look up a local sheetmetal fabricator (HVAC) and see if they can hook you up or send you in the right direction. Once ans a while at our shop we have a request like this, and we will cut or bend something for someone and have them come and pick it up and just pay with check or cash.
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4mm is pretty chubby - like 1/4" plate? For that you'd
be looking for "drops" at a sheet metal / welding supply.
(Mine refuses to call it "scrap" because "scrap" means
they'd have to sell it cheaper; "drops" are still "new".
Also good bargains to be had at non-ferrous recycling
centers if you live in an area with any industry, and
these guys don't give **** #1, just sell it for more a
pound than they paid the vagrants.
be looking for "drops" at a sheet metal / welding supply.
(Mine refuses to call it "scrap" because "scrap" means
they'd have to sell it cheaper; "drops" are still "new".
Also good bargains to be had at non-ferrous recycling
centers if you live in an area with any industry, and
these guys don't give **** #1, just sell it for more a
pound than they paid the vagrants.
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Originally Posted by skytower31
Anyone know where I can go to pick up some small sheets of aluminum? Not alot and nothing crazy heavy duty...just like 4mm thick stuff. Thanks!
