Where to buy cheap sheet metal?

[ballmode]

Any suggestions?

 

[Cattlegod]

go to the junk yard and snatch a hood or a trunk off an old car.

 

[Ronstang]

I go to a sheetmetal company and buy their remnants left over from customer projects. These days it isn't exaclty cheap but it is cheaper this way.

 

[mchammer]

For what is this needed?

 

[ballmode]

A computer case

 

[miniMUNCH]

mcmaster-carr

may not be the cheapest...but easy.

 

[saymyname]

Originally posted by: ballmode
Any suggestions?

Commodity prices are high. Go for iron if you want cheap. Chrome/400 series stainless steel (has no nickel in it) after that. Aluminum and 300 series stainless steel will cost you a lot more.

Go to a sheet metal company and offer to buy their scrap. Try to buy it by the pound if you can. Chrome is going for about 16 cents a pound. Iron is probably about 10 cents. You'll never get it that cheap but you can at least get a sense of where you're at. If they charge you 100x that you know you can find it cheaper.

 

[Cattlegod]

hmm, you are going to want 1/16" metal. anything you get off a car will be 1/8 to 1/4

 

[miniMUNCH]

I'm serious...

http://www.mcmaster.com/

search for sheet metal

 

[bctbct]

Originally posted by: Cattlegod
hmm, you are going to want 1/16" metal. anything you get off a car will be 1/8 to 1/4

he said car not tank

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: Ronstang
I go to a sheetmetal company and buy their remnants left over from customer projects. These days it isn't exaclty cheap but it is cheaper this way.

:thumbsup:

 

[Dubb]

you might also try googling your area for things like

"industrial material supply"

I know a good place in in ann arbor, MI, if that helps. they had aircraft aluminum, everything.