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superscifi12
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 Posted: Sep 01 2010 Post subject: UDS part/supplies |
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Hi all first time posting at the ring, but had a quick question as i noticed at least one member from Omaha, NE.
Is there anywhere around here that has expanded steel? (don't really want to buy a whole sheet for 1-2 smokers) People have told me that ace, home depot, menards or lowes carries it - nope called and went to one of each of the stores in case the person who answered the phone was mistaken. |
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Oregon smoker
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http://www.statesteel.com/omaha.htm
There you go. Google is your friend. 
If i were you i would find a smallish steel yard and ask if they have any cutoffs. They often sell those much cheaper then full sheets. |
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grizbear13
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Location: Western Mass
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| Oregon smoker wrote: | http://www.statesteel.com/omaha.htm
There you go. Google is your friend.
If i were you i would find a smallish steel yard and ask if they have any cuto
ffs. They often sell those much cheaper then full sheets. |
The Depot charges $20 for a 2 ft square piece and I paid less than $35 for a 4x 8 sheet at a metal supply yard, now I can make all the coal baskets or grills I want to for cheap. That was for the 3/4 x13 ga so I could bend it by hand.
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Oregon smoker
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| grizbear13 wrote: | | Oregon smoker wrote: | http://www.statesteel.com/omaha.htm
There you go. Google is your friend.
If i were you i would find a smallish steel yard and ask if they have any cuto
ffs. They often sell those much cheaper then full sheets. |
The Depot charges $20 for a 2 ft square piece and I paid less than $35 for a 4x 8 sheet at a metal supply yard, now I can make all the coal baskets or grills I want to for cheap. |
And the last time i picked up expanded metal i asked about a sheet but the yard guy told me he had cut offs that were much cheaper. 2 pieces that were 18-20" wide by 6' long only cost me $10. Much cheaper that that whole sheet. |
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grizbear13
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Location: Western Mass
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| Oregon smoker wrote: | | grizbear13 wrote: | | Oregon smoker wrote: | http://www.statesteel.com/omaha.htm
There you go. Google is your friend.
If i were you i would find a smallish steel yard and ask if they have any cuto
ffs. They often sell those much cheaper then full sheets. |
The Depot charges $20 for a 2 ft square piece and I paid less than $35 for a 4x 8 sheet at a metal supply yard, now I can make all the coal baskets or grills I want to for cheap. |
And the last time i picked up expanded metal i asked about a sheet but the yard guy told me he had cut offs that were much cheaper. 2 pieces that were 18-20" wide by 6' long only cost me $10. Much cheaper that that whole sheet. |
You did well, my supplier doesn't cut expanded metal or do fabricating so at least I beat the depot and lowes thieves and have enough for a lot of projects and things maybe a little less expensive out your way than here in New England . 
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Jeff T
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superscifi12
Call around to some welding & fabrication shop`s i`m sure they would have some scraps or drops as they call it. You might be able to buy a half sheet also cut off as you need it, not a bad thing to have stashed up it the rafters in the garage. Leftover expanded metal craps an be used for all kinds of different projects. |
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Chvymtl3
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I guess I made out. I stopped by a fab shop to buy a 20 ft stick of angle steel for my storage box and walked out with that and 2 18" x 48" pieces expanded metal for $13 for all of it. I have been back several times to pick up different parts for projects and the guy let me poke around in the cut off bin and load up, one mans trash, anothers treasure....
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polishdon
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Just went to the local Metal Supermarket store and got a piece of 3/4, 13 gauge expanded steel that's a foot wide by 58 inches long for $17.
They had it in the "drops" pile.
That's half the price I paid last time at another local steel supplier.
Check if there's one near you if you need expanded for your projects.
http://www.metalsupermarkets.com/msc-storefinder.aspx |
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MattU
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Maybe you will have better luck at your local fab shops I work at one and expanded metal is like gold around here. Everybody has there own government projects to work on. It kinda tends to come up missing around here.
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Oregon smoker
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| MattU wrote: | | Maybe you will have better luck at your local fab shops I work at one and expanded metal is like gold around here. Everybody has there own government projects to work on. It kinda tends to come up missing around here. |
I have a good friend that is a union sheet metal guy.
He usually does all the fab work i need. He says its a government job.
Although i usually give him most of whats needed. The worst he has ever had to "supply" was some angle iron, and in the sizes that would be in the scrap bin. |
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