2mm Aluminum sheet.

[TVRleigh]

Anyone know where I can get a off cut off aprox 600mm x 400mm 2mm Ali sheet from, over the weekend.

Thanks
Leigh

[rev-erend]

Leigh

I bought something similar from Ebay .. (3mm)..

What ya makin ?

[rev-erend]

Lee - I have a 630 x 500 3mm alloy plate..

I bought it here :

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/3MM-ALLOY-SHEET-625-X-500MM_...

So - you can have mine and replace it.. if you like.

I'm in all day on Saturday (Ripley - Surrey)
Email me your number if you want it.

Edited by rev-erend on Friday 24th August 14:40

Edited by rev-erend on Friday 24th August 21:50

[adam quantrill]

Don't you have a local metal store?

For example mine is here:

http://www.mackay.co.uk/webstore/acatalog/Aluminiu...SectionsTube_and_Mouldings1.html

and they are open on Saturday mornings.

[TVRleigh]

Adam, Don't know of any localy, only one I know is order only, and the smallest size they do is 2m x 3m

Im passing though Cambridge tomorrow, so will pop into Mackay's and see what they have,

Thanks Rev, but I realy want 2mm. that company never came up when I did a search.

O I'm building a Oil cooler bracket. that that will come round the front of the rad and attach with the fan bolts.

Leigh.

[jmorgan]

B+Q do metal sheets and grills. Not sure of the size though.

[rev-erend]

Adam - that looks like a gold mine..

Places like that - are now few and far between ..

I used to use a place in Colliers Wood - south london
they had every metal known to man.. no idea if they are still there .. probably not

[adam quantrill]

It would be Rev - if they did gold sheet ;^) Sadly they only do Aly, steel, and brass. Maybe a bit of copper too.

Incidentally, did you know that Aluminium used to cost more than Gold, only a few hundred years ago?

Yeah, Leigh, they will cut the sheet into the dimensions you need at no extra cost, as long as each piece is rectangular. So you can get it all in your boot no probs. The metal store closes at 12:00 on Saturday. There is a car park round the back so you don't even have to shell out Cambridge's extortionate parking fees.

Edited by adam quantrill on Friday 24th August 16:25

[rev-erend]

I can imagine ..

Don't think this process has been around for that long ..

Extraction of Aluminium.

Aluminium ore is called bauxite.
Bauxite contains aluminium oxide, water, iron oxide and other impurities.
The purified dry ore, called alumina, is aluminium oxide - Al2O3.

The alumina must be molten for electrolysis to work,
since the ions are not free to move in the solid state.
Unfortunately, alumina has a high melting point (2040 °C)
and it is not practical to do electrolysis at such a high temperature.

In the middle of the nineteenth century
it was found that alumina dissolved in cryolite.
Cryolite is sodium aluminium fluoride - Na3AlF6.
A solution of alumina in cryolite melts at about 900 °C
and electrolysis is done at about 950 °C

[rev-erend]

TVRleigh said:

Adam, Don't know of any localy, only one I know is order only, and the smallest size they do is 2m x 3m

Im passing though Cambridge tomorrow, so will pop into Mackay's and see what they have,

Thanks Rev, but I realy want 2mm. that company never came up when I did a search.

O I'm building a Oil cooler bracket. that that will come round the front of the rad and attach with the fan bolts.

Leigh.

Leigh - no problem.

Hope you get it sorted

[TVRleigh]

Thank you
Rev.

What you doing down in cheshunt on sunday. as that's where I work.

Leigh

[andy390se]

I used to use a place in Colliers Wood - south london


where in colliers wood? pass through all the time could have a look and let you know.

[TVRleigh]

I'm going to pop into the place Adam said, as going past ish, on the way to get my trailer. tomorrow.

[TVRleigh]

Adam, your a Star,

Great shop plus cheep also. I forgot tho I was going to do one bracket bigger than the other, but forgot and got the ali cut in half douh. o will they will just have to be the same, will just mean a rad out if I need to remove them.

Thank you once again
Leigh

[rev-erend]

andy390se said:

I used to use a place in Colliers Wood - south london


where in colliers wood? pass through all the time could have a look and let you know.

It was directly after going over a small bridge
near some lights, Nissan dealer near there and a Hospital around the back. Something like Geoff Kings..