[sdiy] Aluminum sheet for panels, cheap!

[Mike Beauchamp]

I've used Metal Supermarket back in Windsor Ontario before. I never
knew it existed until a friend told me about it. It was tucked away in
the industrial areas that people never actually go to. Anyways, their
prices were really good, and they cut everything to lengths I wanted
and let me snoop around the warehouse to see what they had in stock.
Cool place..

Mike

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:49 PM, David G. Dixon
<dixon at interchange.ubc.ca> wrote:
> I just thought I'd pass along a little bit of information regarding a source
> for very cheap aluminum for DIY front panels.
>
> As I'm just finishing a handful of modules, I was looking for 1/8" 5052
> aluminum sheet at a decent price, preferably precut to the correct sizes.
> After several dead ends, I was finally directed to a place called "Metal
> Supermarkets" which has two stores in the BC Lower Mainland, and many more
> all over North America.  For a 2U x 5U panel (3.5" x 8.75") the going price
> is a whopping $2.10 (Canadian).  He also said that I could estimate the cost
> of other pieces by assuming about $10 per square foot, and to forget about
> the cost of cutting it.
>
> If I'd known it was going to be that cheap, I wouldn't have bothered making
> the panels out of cardboard first!
>
> David G. Dixon
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