Hi guys,

I need about 600mm of 1 3/4" or 45mm 16g ERW tube to build an inlet manifold, but I'm struggling to find anywhere that will sell small amounts for reasonable money. Anyone know of somewhere in Kent / London that may be able to help me?

Cheers

Adrian

dunno specifically london kent, but metals4u do small amounts of metal at an alrite price. metals4u

haha but smallest amount is 3m, guess that is kinda smaller than most orders but still! 15 quid for 3000mm chap sorry

you need metal supermarket.

They'll sell down to a few cm if you ask them. The 'problem' is they're expensive, but, its cheaper to buy a small expensive bit than a full piece.

I use metalsdirectuk.com for odd bits and pieces, give them a call and they will do most lengths and sizes.

Just go to a motor factors and buy a metre length of 45mm exhaust tubing.
Paul

I'm with that, a decent motorfactor will stock a selection of straight and curved bits of exhaust tube.

But before you even do that pop down to B&Q and have a wander about, its amazing what lurks made of tube, fancy shelving uprights and odd bits and bobs for kitchens.

I've just got a foot of 2-1/4" OD 6SWG wall MS tube from Metal Supermarket in Southampton - £19.55 inc VAT & delivery.

Not cheap I'll admit but quick, convenient and I don't have 5-1/2 metres of the stuff left over.

HTH

Neil

Use 4 of these;
bends
Gives you the 30 degrees you need and welds direct to a steel flange available from people on here such as shorttrack123

posted on Haynes
I used these in Beckenham

http://www.isg-steel.co.uk/index.php


HTH david

metal supermarket is a lot cheaper if you collect!

(although if you do full lengths and enough they'll deliver free of charge + be competitive on price. Well they where 10 years ago when i started the build).

try corus in the chatham dockyard sometimes they have offcuts the bloke will give you for beer money.

I have used ebay of all places in the past, i was suprised to find exactly what i wanted.

For a short bit like that I would go dumpster diving in the local steel workers skip......FOC I would use the 19 quid saved to get some beer