where do you get..

sheet steel and the like from?

dumb question I know, but having now acquired a welder, I can get the Series
back to the house and rebuild the body bits that need doing, but I havent
got the first clue if there are better places than others to get supplies.

I'm in Medway if anyone knows any good local supply places

Cheers

Si

On 2006-07-10, GrnOval <[email protected]> wrote:

> dumb question I know, but having now acquired a welder, I can get the Series
> back to the house and rebuild the body bits that need doing, but I havent
> got the first clue if there are better places than others to get supplies.

Probably cheapest going to a scrappy and looking for flat panels! At
least you can practice on them if you're not totally up on welding
yet.

A friend has repaired lots of bodywork using sheet steel he knicked
from the server cabinets in the large IT datacentre he works in, lots
of doors just standing around in a corner not being used ;-)

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Ian Rawlings wrote:
> On 2006-07-10, GrnOval <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> dumb question I know, but having now acquired a welder, I can get
>> the Series back to the house and rebuild the body bits that need
>> doing, but I havent got the first clue if there are better places
>> than others to get supplies.
>
> Probably cheapest going to a scrappy and looking for flat panels! At
> least you can practice on them if you're not totally up on welding
> yet.
>
> A friend has repaired lots of bodywork using sheet steel he knicked
> from the server cabinets in the large IT datacentre he works in, lots
> of doors just standing around in a corner not being used ;-)

IIUC, many series vehicles and triallers were 'repaired' with superfluous
roadsigns. Could do worse.

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"He who says it cannot be done would be well advised not to interrupt
her doing it."

If the answer is offensive maybe the question was inappropriate

The fiend of my fiend is my enema!

"Ian Rawlings" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
: On 2006-07-10, GrnOval <[email protected]> wrote:
:
: > dumb question I know, but having now acquired a welder, I can get the
Series
: > back to the house and rebuild the body bits that need doing, but I
havent
: > got the first clue if there are better places than others to get
supplies.
:
: Probably cheapest going to a scrappy and looking for flat panels! At
: least you can practice on them if you're not totally up on welding
: yet.

First time i've ever gone MIG, always did OxyAcet in the past

: A friend has repaired lots of bodywork using sheet steel he knicked
: from the server cabinets in the large IT datacentre he works in, lots
: of doors just standing around in a corner not being used ;-)

Hmm, now theres an idea - might have to go into the office and see what
we've got ;-)

Speaking of welding bits, has anyone seen that funky torch thing from
austrailia? it purports to be able to cut like plasma, and use less gas
than normal because of the way the gases are mixed in a pre-chamber - The
HenRob2000 is the piece of kit. Seems to be a mixed bag of "v expensive for
what you get" and "want one"

Thoughts?

Si

On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:13:38 +0100, GbH <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Ian Rawlings wrote:

>>
>> A friend has repaired lots of bodywork using sheet steel he knicked
>> from the server cabinets in the large IT datacentre he works in, lots
>> of doors just standing around in a corner not being used ;-)

There is that - I've had my eye on a nice mesh door (from a Dell cabinet I
think) - plenty uses spring to mind for a good strong mesh on a Land Rover


> IIUC, many series vehicles and triallers were 'repaired' with superfluous
> roadsigns. Could do worse.

yep - I'm still using up the remains of a filing cabinet for the odd
repair job.


--
William Tasso

Land Rover - 110 V8
Discovery - V8

"GrnOval" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> sheet steel and the like from?
>
> dumb question I know, but having now acquired a welder, I can get the
> Series
> back to the house and rebuild the body bits that need doing, but I havent
> got the first clue if there are better places than others to get supplies.
>
> I'm in Medway if anyone knows any good local supply places


Anywhere that sells body panels will stock sheet steel.

--
Andy

On or around Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:08:49 +0100, "GrnOval"
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>sheet steel and the like from?
>
>dumb question I know, but having now acquired a welder, I can get the Series
>back to the house and rebuild the body bits that need doing, but I havent
>got the first clue if there are better places than others to get supplies.

local blacksmith type bloke, round here.
--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
"Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose"
Alphonse Karr (1808 - 1890) Les Guêpes, Jan 1849

On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:37:22 +0100, "William Tasso"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>yep - I'm still using up the remains of a filing cabinet for the odd
>repair job.

Ive got the removable metal sides off a couple of washing machines for
bodywork jobs.
My thicker bits of metal for chassis repairs came from the skip where
my mate used to work (making metal shelves).
If you can find and engineering or metalworking company that will let
you raid the metal skip its really useful!

"GrnOval" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> sheet steel and the like from?
>
> dumb question I know, but having now acquired a welder, I can get the
> Series
> back to the house and rebuild the body bits that need doing, but I havent
> got the first clue if there are better places than others to get supplies.
>
> I'm in Medway if anyone knows any good local supply places
>
> Cheers
>
> Si

Ring a local sheet metal works and ask them where they get theres. I got a
sheet about 8 by 4 ft several years ago for bodywork... must still have
about half left. It's much better for welding than trying to clean off an
old scabby sheet of something. That said Percys area of bulkhead around the
bell housing has a few locker makers logos riveted on ;-)

The 8 by 4 I got rolled up nice to go in the boot. Take a couple of ratchet
straps with you then get yourself down to machine mart and buy a nibbler to
fasten to your drill, worth their weight in gold they are.

Lee D

"Lee_D" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Ring a local sheet metal works and ask them where they get theres.

Or ask if you can pick bits out of their skips, that's what I do, lots of
good stuff is skipped for recycling but they get nowt for it so don't
usually care.

Greg