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Originally Posted by Dick Linn
Rather than buying from Home Depot or Loew's, you may want to find an industrial supplier. Sometimes they will have shorts (or "drops" and "dings)), or even small scraps that they will sell for less or even donate. Our local steel suppliers stock all types of aluminum. It generally runs about $3 per pound, which is the smallish sizes of tube and angle is roughly a buck a foot. I got a 21 foot piece of 1" x 1" x 1/8" square tube for about $27. Some places will lop them into more transportable sizes without charge.
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Actually, I pass no less than 3 industrial metals suppliers in the 4 miles between here and the office,
Ryerson Tull being the largest... AS far as drops go, I highly recommend to anyone that may have a
Metal Supermarket in the neighborhood to check them out, they usually have a room full of drops that are all priced by the pound. My original comment was directed more toward the fact than many teams don't have those sorts of things in the neighborhood, and the ones that do probably tend, like us, to come up with a need for a piece of something when they are not open.