Where do ya'll buy your tubing and other steel materials? Home Depot, steel yard? Thanks

 

There's a local steel yard a few blocks from my house. Get all my stuff there. Anything from plate steel to 4x10 sheets of aluminum.

 

Cool, thanks. As much as i hear from all the DYI's they never mention where they get their tubing and materials.

 

Not at Home De Pot. Grab your yellow pages and look up Steel Distributors & Warehouses, then start calling them and see if they have what you need. Beware prices are a little high right now, China's fault.

 

shane is right. Steel is expensive. seems like only a few months ago, I could buy a 3 foot piece of 3x3 1/4 wall square tubing for almost 12 dollars. Now the same piece is almost 18. Another bad thing bout the price of steel being high is the local pick and pulls are scrapping a lot more cars than usual. Which makes it kinda a pain to find some stuff. In fact, the one I frequent, just crushed a perfectly good and RUST FREE right hand drive Scout.

 

I uh..."borrow" it from work since I work at an industrial fabricator and we just have all this steel just lying around calling out my name....wabbit....wabbit.....wabbit.....I must obey!

No, find a steel distributor in your area in the yellow pages and they can pretty much get you what you want and will have the common stuff in stock but be prepared to pay for it as we are estimating steel material costs at $0.65/lb these days and it was at $0.36/lb in March, so the prices have gone UP big time!

Good luck!