Re: Source of steel strip?
- From: "Malc" <malunspamwhhite@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 21:12:16 GMT
"Rusty Hinge 2" <rusty.hinge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Anyone any good ideas where I might get thin steel strip somewhere
> between ½" and 1" wide?
>
> I want to molish a cabinet (for keeping a collection of beerbockle-tops
> in) with the 'help' of its recipient, who doesn't know this yet, but his
> father assures me, will delight him muchly.
>
> The idea is, to cut a pile of boards up into similar rectangles, bore
> flat-bottomed blind holes in them, then cut slots in the (in)sides of
> the cabinet, and poxyresinate strips of steel in, to act as runners.
>
> Or maybe, set them into the sides of the 'drawers' so that they run in
> the slots.
>
> They need to be about a foot long if the former method is employed, but
> could just be tabs or discs if the latter option is taken.
>
>
cSerfwxi sell what they call Builder's Band what are a 10 metre or so band
of perforated galvanised steel about 2cm wide and about 1mm or 1.5mm thick.
It comes in a reel and would need flattening but it isn't very zbarlous.
http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/sea/searchresults.jsp?_dyncharset=UTF-8&q=builders+band&n=&s=0&pn=1&pd=1&pi=1&cn=1&cd=1&x=0&y=0
or http://tinyurl.com/ah6jf
only £3.50 of your English zu.
--
Malc
"I want to be a utility fog when I grow up."
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