[TheForge] tongs out of round stock?

[Dave Brown]

At 20:40 07/26/02 -0400, you wrote:
>As has been said before, because that's what you have ;-)

Actually that wasn't the original question.  Phil Rosche wrote originally:

>What is the advantage of using round stock?  It seems to me that with 
>square stock, it's easier to keep things parallel and perpendicular.
>
>Phil Rosche
>Summerville, SC
>__________________________

>In Ohio, I had no poblem getting round stock, it's finding square which 
>was a problem. In my
>part of Ohio, the few fabrication-type businesses there were only used round
>or rebar. In order to find square or rectangular, I had to drive to a big
>city.
>
>Phlip

That's one problem with relying on drops from fabricators or living on 
scrounge.  At $0.35 to $0.47 per pound for new stock .... And let me tell 
ya,Green Bay isn't "the big city", it's more like Danbury, CT (for 
reference 'cuz you lives deer.)  But that's a whole other story, this 
thread wasn't about scrounging, it was about "What is the advantage of 
using round stock?".

Dave Brown

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. -
Turkish proverb