Subject: aluminum bar stock

[ken mayer]

> Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 07:13:01 -0700
> From: Bill Edgeworth <bedgew at ix.netcom.com>
> 
> You can buy short lengths of aluminum bar stock from a number of the big
> industrial supply companies like McMaster. In the west there is a
> company called Metal supermarkets. They have all kinds of stuff on the
> shelf. even nice stainless steel hi grade tubing that is supposedly used
> for fuel lines in gas turbines. Don't waste your money on expensive
> alloys like 6061-t6 or 7075-t6 they are hard to weld.

Try www.metalmart.com; it's relative expensive on small quantities, buy
you can buy only as much as you need.  Aircraft Spruce also has aluminum
(www.aircraft-spruce.com?)

Ken
:-)