I need to make a new exhaust strap for my new larger silencer. Where can I buy about 700mm of stainless steel strip. RS will sell me two 2m bard for £26 but will only ship by courier due to the size and they will only deliver when I'm not in.

Where else can I get some?

Collect from their trade counter?

B&Q

Metal Supermarket?

RS don't sell to non trade at their trade counters. B&Q don't sell anything as nice as stainless steel.

Metal supermarket? What's that then?

www.metalsupermarkets.co.uk

Redditch
0152-768818
mscredditch@aol.com 10 Madeley Road
Redditch, B989NB

West Midlands
0121-553-4424
janet@metalsupermarkets.co.uk

What thickness do you need, I've got some off cuts of 1.2mm about 20mm wide and 400-500mm long.

I need a strip 550 or 600mm long by perhaps 25mm wide. Thickness? I don't know. I guess 1 or 2mm would be fine.

I buy all my stainless form a fabrication shop down the road. They specialise in catering equipment and industrial kitchens. I usually speak to the lads in the workshops and can get off cuts for the price of a pint or two.
A quick Google found these http://www.stainlessdesigns.co.uk/ which may be close to you? Or try Yell.

B&Q do sell it, but very expensive sold aroundwhere they sell metal bars, but normal sold in sheet format about 2ft x 1ft.

Look behind the guilotine of any steel fabricators!

I though the area behind the guillotine was reserved for the ends off steel rulers?!

[Edited on 22/3/06 by owelly]

[Edited on 22/3/06 by owelly]

(I though the area behind the guillotine was reserved for the ends off steel rulers?!)
Ah, someone else who's done this! Perhaps I'm not so dumb.