Metal supplier - small quantities

[PJK]

Hi all,

Sometime ago somebody published a link to a mail order supplier of metal bar and rod in small quantities, I used them once but now I've lost it. Does anybody have any suggestions please?

TIA Peter.

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[Dave Fawthrop]

|Hi all, | |Sometime ago somebody published a link to a mail order supplier of metal |bar and rod in small quantities, I used them once but now I've lost it. | Does anybody have any suggestions please?

B & Q now have a restricted range of metal bar and rod.

[Guy King]

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Or your local steel suppliers. Though mine has a minimum order of a tenner, though I've yet to understand the logic of the reason they've offered. The reckon it's 'cos of recent increases in fuel costs. Which considering I'm collecting it and they're not sawing it is rather odd.

[Jon]

used them but looks promising.

Regards JonH

[Autolycus]

I used to use mailordermetals, of Beeston (Nottingham) but their web site has disappeared.

(Folkestone Engineering Supplies)

seem to be recommended in the model engineering group, though I've not used either of them.

[PJK]

It was mailordermetals I was thinking of, shame that they seem to have gone, but the Folkestone people look OK and are close enough to me I can collect. Thanks for your help and thanks to everyone else who replied.

Peter.

[Lobster]

Standard response to justify any price increase, innit.

Depending on how they process the order it's probably justifiable though... if they have to raise invoices and all the associated paperwork there's a cost attached, and below a certain price it's either not cost-effective for them to sell it, or they'd rather discourage a steady trickle of 'timewasting' customers who want a few quidsworth of stock... whereas at my local supplier, a fairly small outfit, you just have a quick chat with the owner and he's happy to bung a fiver in his pocket in exchange for a lump of metal otherwise lying languishing in the corner!

David

[Guy King]

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Possibly, but for small cash sales they scrawl out a paper receipt and put the cash in a tin.

[Mike Harrison]

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