Does anyone know a source of oval steel Tube?
Loads of Racing people use it so must be available somewhere?
Hi
I got mine from good old MK. Think it was about £3 per metre. The people he gets it from dont cover it in oil, so it gets rusty - oh well.
Liam
most steel stock holders will have a supply, where do you live ? i do have some off cuts in garage, not sure if they will be long enough for bottom
wishbone though as lots a builders have sifted thru what i have......North Derbyshire here....
what size is oval tube?
how lomg is a lump of string ?
brought some oval tube 1 1/4 x 5/8 x1.6 at £5 .88 for7.5m, 40 x20 x1.6 £6.90 for 7.5 m, 1" box £8.90 for 7.5 m is that a fair price?
Depends on the quality of the shopping experience
John
Steel prices seem to vary a lot, perhaps by supplier or by how much you buy.
Originally i bought 10 x 6 mtr lengths of 1 inch section for sixty quid.
A year later i bought two and they cost just over 20!
If you are wondering why i needed more than a std locost, its cos mine isnt.
atb
steve
made my w/bones out of oval tube, over the w/end. tube was £6 odd an i only used half of it.put pics to show how they look
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made my w/bones out of oval tube, over the w/end. tube was £6 odd an i only used half of it.put pics to show how they look
Very nice... think i'll have to have a look for some tube like that.
John
Bass, where did you get your oval tube from? I've tried all my local suppliers, and they've all put me onto Hub Le Bas who only sell large
quantities.
MK don't post it
Hi guys, we have had some in the past at work, sourced from a stockholder in sheffield, will get info n post....
Cheers Jon, again!
sorry guys clean forgot, tomorrow do ?
more excuse's, but i'm off to bed.....
Right......got it..... they supply two types in lots of different size's / wall thickness,
"Flat sided oval" bit like RHS but with rounded sides instead of square corners.
"Elliptical Oval" nice stuff this, true oval shape this one.......
Not sure how much you would need to buy B4 they would ship and if it really gets tuff and they won't post i can get some in and post it from
work...(ask Jasper) it costs me £6 to post packages 24hrs so that is an option if enough people want it, i'm not trying to make money here just help
out so as long as i aint out of pocket if all else fails we can do it that way.
Oh, the number Gardener Steels 0114 2442094.
I have about 10 meters of 30 x 15 FSO available. I will take it to the Uxbridge Show on the 21st July! First come, first served! £1.50 a meter... 
You gona cut it up with your nail file?
no John, that's your department! And Bob's making the tea!
How come when there's a car show its good old bob the tea making bar-b cooking and washing up geezer.
I'm retiring now,will supply the bits but someone else can have a go.
Well thats untill i get hungry and thisty,which is normally every 10 mins.
Bring yer own meat lads 
What the hells this got to do with oval tube i dont know. 
oval tube barbie stand,thats what! 
MADE MY REAR OVAL W/BONES OVER THE WEEK END FOR IRS. USED 1 1/4 OVAL AND ROSE JOINTS AS TO ADJUST CAMBER ECT. SEE PICS.
just built my irs using oval, used ford long ruber bushes as i used 1 1/4 inch oval near the diff end an r/joints near the wheel. ford diff and drive shafts. if you want to alter the track use 2 n/side or 2 o/side d/shafts. any body want more info email me. see pics of irs
Just phoned MK to enquire about flat sided oval for front wishbones and was quoted £10 per metre. Is it just me or does that sound a tad
expensive!!!
Cheers,
Cheffy.
I think if you wanted lots then it would be expensive, but then you would be buying it from a steel stockholder then, wouldn't you?
It sounds to me as if MK are setting a price which has more to do with the hassle of supplying people with small amounts of the materials they use in
their own business. When I used to repair guitars sometimes people would ask to buy fretwire, and I always quoted a discouragingly high price so as
not to have to measure out small amounts of materials, cut them etc etc, so their price sounds reasonable to me
John
Well I wouldn't say a tenner a metre is very reasonable considering MK sold me some about six months ago for £3 a metre. He even cut it up for me
into metre lengths so we could fit it in my mates Locost. I know I'm special, and I was also buying poly bushes and bush tubes, and I went to pick it
all up, but back then he was just passing on the oval tube for about what he paid for it.
Seems now that maybe he's getting a fair bit of demand for his oval tube and decided he could make a few bucks supplying it. Nothing wrong with that,
but at that price I reckon surely you would be better off going to a local stockholders, even if you have to buy a bit more than you need.
Liam
Hi Liam,
Have been phoning round this afternoon and only found two stockholders who do it so far. One had a minimum order value of £80 and the other was £100.
Tried Gardener Steels (mentioned earlier in this forum) and they don't do it anymore. Anyone got any idea's?
Thanks,
Cheffy.
Cheefy wrote:
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Anyone got any idea's?
Yeah, that thought had occured to me. If no one knows where we can get small amounts I'll phone them back and find out the exact price. If the price
is right would anyone else be interested? I'm in Oxfordshire. Anyone wanting some could either pick it up from me or I'd be happy to look into sending
it via courier if it's feasible.
Cheers,
Cheffy.
ill have some
I'll check it out tomorrow and post the price. Once we know what we're looking at I can find out exactly who wants what. Once there's enough of us
I'll get it ordered.
Cheers,
Cheffy
Bingo!!! Just ordered 5x6 metre lengths of 30x15x1.5mm flat sided oval. Should be here middle of next week. £13 a length. Anybody interested e-mail me
at martin@frost21.freeserve.co.uk or tel. 07720 578548.
Cheers
Cheffy