Sourcing Brass for clocks in Germany.

[Dick HParticipant @dickh]

Does anyone out there have any good sources for brass (for barrels or plates) on mainland Europe? Given the punitive postal costs from GB, I´m looking around. I would also be interested to hear of any members in southern Germany.

Thanks in advance,

Dick.

[Dick HParticipant @dickh]

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Dick,

Have a look at the bottom of this page: **LINK**

http://www.m-p.co.uk/

… They seem to be heading in the right direction.

MichaelG.

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 19/09/2018 21:12:09

[Dick HParticipant @dickh]

Thanks but I´ve sourced from M&P before, they are fantastic for lots of things. The sort of things that are hard to come by are brass tubes for barrels with the required wall thickness for clocks etc.

Dick.

[Jeff DaymanParticipant @jeffdayman43397]

A number of years ago when I was working on projects at the German division of a Canadian sterilizer firm, I was introduced to a firm called MeCu who carried a wide range of brass (messing) and copper as well as lots of other metall-stucke.

Here's a link to their website's spec page for various round brass tube.

https://www.mecu.de/images/mecu/mecu_homepage-tabellen_messing_Rundrohr.pdf

Maybe they can help with your requirements. Not sure if they are OK with working with individuals, but years ago, company to company, with business conducted in German, they were very responsive and helpful. Good luck!

Edited By Jeff Dayman on 19/09/2018 22:22:54

[Roger BParticipant @rogerb61624]

I am across the border in Switzerland. This company is on the outskirts of Zurich and as well as being a stockholder they also sell the offcuts of material by weight from an onsite shop.

**LINK**

Best regards

Roger

[John HinkleyParticipant @johnhinkley26699]

Not in Germany, but within the EU are L'Octant. I've posted the link before but I'll do it again:

**LINK**

Will take you to their brass page ( laiton ). You don't say and I don't know, what size brass tube you need; maybe there's something here. At least you'll be able to pay in € without exchange rate interference.

John

[Dick HParticipant @dickh]

Thanks for the links, the problem is to get small quantities. Bavaria has lots of little precision engineering firms, they must get small quantities of material from somewhere. The problem is that the brass I need is slightly chunkier than a model engineer would use, eg. 50 mm (2&quot dia. brass tube, 3-4 mm wall thickness but I only need a 3" length, similarly 4 mm brass plate. If I go down to the Modelbau exhibition in Friedrichshafen at the beginning of November I´ll ask around.

Dick.

[Dick HParticipant @dickh]

Not sure how the smiley got in there!

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