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Metal for OCLE project
Tamra B
#50980 Jeff, thanks for the 'heads up" on the info at LittleMachineShop's website. I printed the Steam Engine info, and the kit seems like a really reasonable cost... It is definitely on my list... OpticianEd, I have purchased items from online metals a couple of times, but... I really struggle using them, it seems that they always want to charge me $18 to ship anything, and it drives me absolutely nuts. When I am in a larger city, like Indy, I usually try to plan and pick up my order. Martin, I don't think I like your weather problem any better then mine...the nice thing about a desktop machine is you can pick it up and put it on a table in your kitchen, if necessary...I just don't really want metal swarf in my kitchen, where I cook, but I have considered it... I hope someone is making cool stuff with your uni! Tamra | ||
Neil Morrison
#50981 Hardware stores like Home Depot have some basic metal shapes like rods and tubes and angles IIRC. Typically 3’ or 1 metre lengths. I know RONA does in Canada. Depending on your city, maybe there’s a business that has offcuts of metal?
From: tamrabrogdon@... [UNIMAT] Jeff, thanks for the 'heads up" on the info at LittleMachineShop's website. I printed the Steam Engine info, and the kit seems like a really reasonable cost... It is definitely on my list... OpticianEd, I have purchased items from online metals a couple of times, but... I really struggle using them, it seems that they always want to charge me $18 to ship anything, and it drives me absolutely nuts. When I am in a larger city, like Indy, I usually try to plan and pick up my order.
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mertbaker@verizon.net #50982 Further: Most metals dealers and machine shops have a scrap bin. It contains short pieces of round, and rectangular mild steel left over from both sales and production that didn't require the standard length of such material. It sits in a box until enough accumulates to make make it profitable enuf to sell as scrap. Some places have brass, bronze and aluminum stock as well. They will sell to you at scrap prices, and by the pound, as a rule. I have found outfits that will allow me to pick though the pile, and some of 'em have told me to take what I could use, gratis. Just a thought. Sometimes, for a project, I have bought the whole 12' bar, and when what I needed was used, the remainder goes in MY Resource Bin. I do not have a scrap pile. I'm still making stuff out of rusty, worn out hydraulic turbine wicket gate pins, screws ans axles that I replaced with new ones I'd made, back in the 80s, when I worked in a hydropower plant. The Uni DB/SL TS raising blocks I sell, though, are made from high quality extruded cast iron bar stock, bought from the outfit that also gives me stuff from their scrap bin. I bought my DB200 new, in 1955, I think. Memory isn't what it was. Mert . toggle quoted messageShow quoted text -----Original Message----- Hardware stores like Home Depot have some basic metal shapes like rods and tubes and angles IIRC. Typically 3’ or 1 metre lengths. I know RONA does in Canada. Depending on your city, maybe there’s a business that has offcuts of metal? -- From: tamrabrogdon@... [UNIMAT] Jeff, thanks for the 'heads up" on the info at LittleMachineShop's website. I printed the Steam Engine info, and the kit seems like a really reasonable cost... It is definitely on my list... OpticianEd, I have purchased items from online metals a couple of times, but... I really struggle using them, it seems that they always want to charge me $18 to ship anything, and it drives me absolutely nuts. When I am in a larger city, like Indy, I usually try to plan and pick up my order.
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Jeff Klender
#50986 Tamra Another good source for small tubing, sheet etc are Hobby shops, and and places like Hobby Lobby. If you have any near by the specialize in Model Trains they should have a big selection. Jeff On Friday, January 5, 2018 12:28 AM, "tamrabrogdon@... [UNIMAT]" wrote: Jeff, thanks for the 'heads up" on the info at LittleMachineShop's website. I printed the Steam Engine info, and the kit seems like a really reasonable cost... It is definitely on my list... OpticianEd, I have purchased items from online metals a couple of times, but... I really struggle using them, it seems that they always want to charge me $18 to ship anything, and it drives me absolutely nuts. When I am in a larger city, like Indy, I usually try to plan and pick up my order. Martin, I don't think I like your weather problem any better then mine...the nice thing about a desktop machine is you can pick it up and put it on a table in your kitchen, if necessary...I just don't really want metal swarf in my kitchen, where I cook, but I have considered it... I hope someone is making cool stuff with your uni! Tamra | ||
Martin P.
#50993 Probably more like 1959, Mert, based on the type of machine you have. In 1955, they were the chip tray type. Martin P. toggle quoted messageShow quoted text -----Original Message----- I bought my DB200 new, in 1955, I think. Memory isn't what it was. Mert . -----Original Message----- Hardware stores like Home Depot have some basic metal shapes like rods and tubes and angles IIRC. Typically 3’ or 1 metre lengths. I know RONA does in Canada. Depending on your city, maybe there’s a business that has offcuts of metal? -- From: tamrabrogdon@... [UNIMAT] Jeff, thanks for the 'heads up" on the info at LittleMachineShop's website. I printed the Steam Engine info, and the kit seems like a really reasonable cost... It is definitely on my list... OpticianEd, I have purchased items from online metals a couple of times, but... I really struggle using them, it seems that they always want to charge me $18 to ship anything, and it drives me absolutely nuts. When I am in a larger city, like Indy, I usually try to plan and pick up my order. | ||
Guy Winton
#50996 Yes, the big box stores have some stock. But my experience is that the Chicom steel is poor quality and full of junk inclusions and hard spots. I was cross-drilling a bolt last weekend and the poor bit was throwing out sparks like I was striking flint on steel. I often (re)use old rusty American (or German, Brit or Jap) bolts as stock instead... -Guy- toggle quoted messageShow quoted text On January 5, 2018 at 12:32 AM "Neil Morrison neilsmorr@... [UNIMAT]" <UNIMAT@...> wrote: | ||
mertbaker@verizon.net #50997 Truth is, I don't really remember, but I know I had it in 1962, when my daughter was learning to read. (It took her most of the day, and she was only 4 years old then.) She taught herself to read, using first grade primer and workbook. You are probably right. Mert toggle quoted messageShow quoted text -----Original Message----- Probably more like 1959, Mert, based on the type of machine you have. In 1955, they were the chip tray type. Martin P. -----Original Message----- I bought my DB200 new, in 1955, I think. Memory isn't what it was. Mert . -----Original Message----- Hardware stores like Home Depot have some basic metal shapes like rods and tubes and angles IIRC. Typically 3’ or 1 metre lengths. I know RONA does in Canada. Depending on your city, maybe there’s a business that has offcuts of metal? -- From: tamrabrogdon@... [UNIMAT] Jeff, thanks for the 'heads up" on the info at LittleMachineShop's website. I printed the Steam Engine info, and the kit seems like a really reasonable cost... It is definitely on my list... OpticianEd, I have purchased items from online metals a couple of times, but... I really struggle using them, it seems that they always want to charge me $18 to ship anything, and it drives me absolutely nuts. When I am in a larger city, like Indy, I usually try to plan and pick up my order. |
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