Steel Tubing

[Sisco]

Where do you get your square tubing and other steel stock? Tractor Suppy? General hardware stores? Home depot? Online?

 

[Bluethunder3320]

look for a local steel supplier.

theres a few online places but shipping may be expensive.

 

[r97]

search google maps, and the phone book for (as blue said) "steel supply", "metal supply", or "steel yard". you can also go to local welding shop(s) and ask them were they get steel from.

 

[Doc Sprocket]

Stay well away from Home Depot, and all the other building supply stores. Their stock is terrible and the prices are insane.

 

[gokart14]

was in lowes looking for some tubing and it was almost twice the amount i usally get it for

 

[redsox985]

Check scrap yards, steel distributors, just about any place with anything metal, they will all be cheaper than HD or Lowes.

 

[TorqueRanger]

Check out any place that fab stuff because many times they will sell you steel for cheap... Stay away from fastenal at all cost because they charge you per inch at some really big price..

 

[Mrmoto877]

Go to a welding shop if you go to a hardware store you get ripped off. I went to a local welding shop and i bought 30 feet of 1 by 1 1/8 thick and paid $25. Hope this helped brett

 

[redsox985]

Here's why I get mine. http://www.metcosupply.com/ Click PDF Catalogs then Metals. Pipe and Tube starts on page 5.

 

[oscaryu1]

F*ck. I've been buying tubing from HD for a few years now...

 

[Bluethunder3320]

F*ck. I've been buying tubing from HD for a few years now...

hahahahaha!!!!

 

[redsox985]

F*ck. I've been buying tubing from HD for a few years now...

On of the funnier moments of enlightenment on this site! I though it was common knowledge that HD not only asked too much, but wanted your lunch money too.

 

[oscaryu1]

Yeah I was wondering why 4x 36" of ultrathinwall steel tubing cost $40.. T______T