- Thread starter Piero
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http://www.themetalstore.co.uk/
That's where I bought my sheet metal and couple of other bits and pieces.
That's where I bought my sheet metal and couple of other bits and pieces.
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oddbob
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Brundles are always reliable... http://www.fhbrundle.co.uk/groups/30MSSCR8__0_8mm_Thick
langy
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Google your local sheet metal stockist
Kent
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ask in the local smaller body repair shops were they use. Were I did my time we sold to all the local body shops and hardly ever used much thin stuff ourselves, bought it in purely to sell on at about double the price for bits to them guys. I am guessing you wont need a full sheet
http://www.yell.com/ucs/UcsSearchAc...albans&scrambleSeed=672178491&autocomplete=kw and hit the phone. Somewhere on the forum is a list of stockholders and fabricators that are DIY friendly so you might get lucky and find someone else has already done the research for you... some (many) places take the pee and will happily sell smallish offcuts for more cash than a full sheet costs from a stockholder. Especially if they smell DIYer that might not know what stuff costs
If you want a rough idea of what ££ to expect then http://www.parkersteel.co.uk/Matrix/19/Cold+Rolled+General+Purpose Don't need to register to get a price, just add whatever you want to the basket and then goto the basket and select calculate prices
If you want a rough idea of what ££ to expect then http://www.parkersteel.co.uk/Matrix/19/Cold+Rolled+General+Purpose Don't need to register to get a price, just add whatever you want to the basket and then goto the basket and select calculate prices
Kent
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Is it worth bothering if they double the price if your only spending a tenner a time? Gosh I am one penny pincher when I am buying a fair amount but rather than overstock and fill the place with stuff I wont use up.................?
It's still worth trying a few fabricators as companies that buy regularly in quantity get much better prices from stockholders and occasionally they'll sell on for less than two sheets would cost you. Not that common though, at least around my neck of the woods
Bodywork on a classic car (to me at least) means more than a small offcut for a one off job. It's about the hassle as much as the money... go and buy a an offcut, do some work and run out of material. On a Saturday afternoon. Repeat. After not long you've spent more time and money than if you'd just gone to local stockholder and bought a 2x1 sheet. If you want to make say a battery tray out of stainless then i agree an offcut makes more sense than buying a whole sheet to use 300 x 250mm
Kent
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if its as much as that you might as well order it in from stockists then
