[TheForge] Re: Odd size stock

[Mike Spencer]

> I "could" forge it out, but now it has become a challenge to find
> it.

Well then, Bill....

If you live in or near any industrial stuff, scout around for products
made in your area that have components made of stock close to the
dimensions you're looking for. Then go to the back door -- the door
where they pile Broken Stuff, take smoke breaks, spit and tell dirty
jokes -- go to the back door of the company that makes it and ask
about off-cuts, scrap, rejected product etc.  Talk to the lowest guy
on the totem pole who has the authority to give you what you want.

Consider sheet/plate of the desired the thickness, from scraps of
which you or your friendly neighborhood shear owner could cut strips.

I admit that this is a less productive strategy than it was a
couple-three decades ago.  Now many plants have chainlink fences,
armed guards at the gate if not on the scrap heap, locked steel doors
everywhere, security badges and a cost accountant who has calculated
the shareholder value of selling an ounce junk vs. putting it in the
dumpster.  Don't bother with those places unless you have an inside
man.  But it might work for you if there happens to be a more or less
old fashioned biz that uses what you want.

>  (Patty thinks I'm being anal).

Stubborn, pig-headed and cranky?  Yes. But anal?  Nahhh...  :-)


- Mike

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