[TheForge] another Fire Steel question

[Daniel Kretchmar]

Thanks Ries,

Daniel Kretchmar
www.irontreeworks.com

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Quoting Ries Niemi <rniemi at fidalgo.net>:

>
> On Friday, October 1, 2004, at 07:51 AM, Daniel Kretchmar wrote:
>
> > Where can I get cheap 3/8 drill rod in the twin cities?
> >
> > Daniel Kretchmar
> > www.irontreeworks.com
> >
> >
>
>
> The only place you are gonna find cheap drill rod is at a junkyard- and
> then you have no idea what alloy it is, or if it is drill rod or not.
> High carbon steels are a commodity, and no seller in his right mind is
> gonna price em below current per price pound for that alloy.
> And it really helps to get the alloy you thought you were getting, when
> buying tool steel.
>
> I dont know about the twin cities, but you can get average price drill
> rod anywhere in the US by mail ordering it from either MSC
> (mscdirect.com) or McMaster Carr (www.mcmaster.com)
> If you get the catalog from MSC (for some reason getting catalogs from
> Mcmaster is like winning the lottery- it happens, but not to you), you
> will also be able to find average priced drills, taps, bandsaw blades,
> oddball fasteners, and all kinds of other industrial, machinist and
> metalworking supplies that they dont have at the corner hardware store.
>
> ries
>
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