[sdiy] Aluminum sheet for panels, cheap!

[Tony Rolando]

Agreed, Metal Supermarket is great. The cuts are pretty accurate too.

If I ever open a hard rock specialty record store, I'll be stealing the 
name though!

Tony


Mike Beauchamp wrote:
> 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
>> Professor
>> Department of Materials Engineering
>> University of British Columbia
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>> Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4
>> Canada
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>> Fax 1-604-822-3619
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