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Cheap source of mild steel plate
| Speedy Builder5 | 01/12/2010 12:29:24 |
| 2878 forum posts 248 photos | Visit your local steel stockist, and beg some offcuts of steel hollow box section with a wall thickness the thickness you want. Get it home and chuck each piece onto your open (or closed) fire, bar b que or bonfire. Get them up to red heat for a while and let them cool slooowwly. This should stress relieve them.
See the forum tip "Cutting steel plate" and cut the box section along its length giving you some nice bits of metal. Why cook them - if you don't, they curl up like a banana as the rolled stresses are relieved. |
| Gordon W | 01/12/2010 15:00:10 |
| 2011 forum posts | Great idea, but why not beg bits of flat plate etc. Have the price of a pint or two about your person. |
| Speedy Builder5 | 01/12/2010 18:17:22 |
| 2878 forum posts 248 photos | My stockholder doesn't do flat plate, and the next one is about 80Km away. |
| Nicholas Farr | 01/12/2010 18:40:40 |
 3988 forum posts 1799 photos | Hi Robert, do you not have any local fabrication shops nearby, they often have offcuts that are not ecconomical for them to keep. As Gordon says the price of a pint or two can work wonders.
Regards Nick. |
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