Material Suppliers

[ChrisHParticipant @chrish]

Hi, does anyone know of a good metal stockholder in the Yeovil/Dorchester/Taunton area that will supplier private customers – as opposed to trade – with modest amounts of stuff at a reasonable rate please?

[ChrisHParticipant @chrish]

[David Clark 13Participant @davidclark13]

Hi There

If still trading, Dorset Metals.

I think they are at Ferndown Industrial Estate Dorset.

regards David

 

Edited By David Clark 1 on 18/05/2009 15:17:51

[keithmartParticipant @keithmart]

Hi

 

I often purchase from Metal Supermarket. There is one locally in Leeds, but I think your nearest would be Southampton.

 

Worth a look on the web as they are very helpfull.

 

Keith

 

Leeds UK

[CirclipParticipant @circlip]

Oft forgotten but worth a scan, get yer local copy of Thompsons and look for Fabrications and Engineering shops in the area and ask if you can go “Skip Surfing”  Local Industrial type scrapyards are good too but you need to set up a repartee with operators, and DON’T go in a suit.

 

      Regards   Ian.

[Peter Williams 1Participant @peterwilliams1]

You could try EKP Supplies in Barnstable, I’ve used them for all kinds of engineering supplies including metal. They are prompt and reasonably priced.

 

Their catalogue is online at http://www.ekp.supplies.btinternet.co.uk

 

Peter

[ChrisHParticipant @chrish]

Hi Guys,

Thanks for the replys – I will follow them up.

A question for keithmart really – the Metal Supermarket, is that a place where you can browse around to find what you need, or has it just a counter where you are supposed to know what you require, like a builders merchants trade counter where you are invariably left feeling inadequate trying to describe what you want without knowing the trade names!

Regards, Chris 

PS.  Am impressed how this website is moving on in only the few days I have been logging on………………. 

[keithmartParticipant @keithmart]

Hi

 

It Depends, I tend to have a fair idea of what I want, most of the time 

 

But if you ask for say “I need some steel to turn in a lathe” they will usually find something suitable.

 

 

[FunnyturnParticipant @funnyturn]

If you want to buy online I can recommend:

 

http://www.nogginend.com/

 

Prompt and friendly service.

[Sandy MortonParticipant @sandymorton10620]

My local Metal Supermarket lets me browse and then tells me whether I have picked the correct metal or not!  Only drawback is that they have a £10 minimum order which for a typical Scot is an awful lot of money.

[Ian HartParticipant @ianhart94481]

Hello

 

Can anyone recommend a supplier of small amounts of aluminium and brass in the Sheffield/Doncaster area?

 

Ian Hart

[David Clark 13Participant @davidclark13]

Hi There

There are plenty of people selling small quantities of metal on Ebay.

regards David

Edited By David Clark 1 on 25/05/2009 08:44:54

[Sandy MortonParticipant @sandymorton10620]

Pedant on.  The email notification which I got about the previous message on this forum has slling instead of selling.  I would assume that it was an automagic copy of your posting so might be worth a look?

[Ian HartParticipant @ianhart94481]

David

 

Thanks, I was trying to avoid postage charges if there was somewhere local that I could use if out and about.

 

Ian Hart

[mgjParticipant @mgj]

Chris – H I live in Kings Stag up near Sturminster. I bought 220M07 free cutting mild from  Pulham Steels. 

 

There is also Dyfed Steels up in Shaftesbury.

 

If you e-mail me we could put an order together – if they want to sell in 3 meter standard lengths.

 

Somdor engineering on the Henstridge Trading Estate have a very healthy scrap bin. A  Mr Ford owns it and is very helpful to model engineers. (Rolled the smokebox for my TE perfectly and for peanuts. Welded up a tuned pipe manifold in ali for a model aircraft ) They don’t have much freecutting mild, but could help with more normal engineering grades, especialy in bigger sections/dias/

[Geoff TheasbyParticipant @geofftheasby]

Ian Hart,

 

I have obtained brass and aluminium from a couple of non-ferrous scrapyards in Attercliffe, Sheffield.   I can’t remember their names, but the Yellow Pages should show them.

 

Regards

Geoff

Edited By Geoff Theasby on 11/06/2009 16:04:11

[NilochParticipant @niloch]

I’ve bought aluminium offcuts: plate, bar and tube from the ebay shop run by

http://www.ringwoodprecision.co.uk

They sell ferrous as well as non-ferrous and are usually even more helpful to personal callers with cash!

Usual disclaimer.

 

[ChrisHParticipant @chrish]

I’ve tried to find ringwood precision on ebay shops – but with conspicuous lack of success.  I can find their own website, but not ebay shop.  What do they go under on ebay?

Regards,

Chris

[David Clark 13Participant @davidclark13]

Hi There

Try searching for

ukroy

regards David

 

[NilochParticipant @niloch]

David Clark 1 above is quite right but if you’re still having difficulty click here

[mgjParticipant @mgj]

Yes but…… some of these prices people are advertising you’d be better off buying the full 3 metres of a free cutting mild like 220M03/EN1A , cutting off the couple of foot you want and chucking the rest away!

 

Slightly different with non ferrous.

 

Incidentally there is a big metal wholesalers in Bristol if anyone wanted to do the Yellow Pages thing. They are supplying a lot of retailers in the SW. They only sell in 3m lengths, but that would not be a problem for a club or something to put an order in. They certainly do 220M03 in imperial sizes, as well as the standard engineering grades.

[David Clark 13Participant @davidclark13]

H There

If buying full lengths, beware the neighbours.

Some tolerate model engineers.

If lorries with long lengths of steel start turning up,

they might report you to the council for running a business.

regards David

 

[mgjParticipant @mgj]

With respect – no.

 

Firstly if you are not running a business you have no problem. Provided you your activity doesn’t constitute a nuisance (noise, hazards like welding flash, paint spray).

 

Second the occasional truck turning up is no worse than if getting bricks, timber or tiles delivered for a bit of serious diy. Its only if things get unreasonable…….

In fact all I do is buy the 3 metre length, and ask the man to guillotine it into 1m lengths  They don’t mind chopping it up – its the spare offcuts they can’t sell they don’t want lying around. They can quillotine up to 1 1/2″ dia. On with the gloves and all onto a blanket in the boot of the Fiesta. OK, you lose an inch or so either side of the cut, because of crushing, but if you have 3m of it, 4 inches is not an issue – providing one has ones parting off sorted. Mandraulically hacksawing and facing might be!!

 

The break poimt is about 1 1/4″ dia. After that its just easier because of transport and actual usage, to buy a metre for £20 off a supplier – its probably a lifetime buy anyway, or it is for me.

I don’t suppose that many model engineers use significant quantities of steel over the 1/14-1 1/2″ mark?

 

 

 

 

 

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