UK Source for brass bar?

[penance]

Anyone know a good place to obtain brass?
I am looking for some 2"dia and 4 - 4.5" dia brass bar.

I have found a few stockists, but the prices are scarey.

[dnsey]

Offcuts this sort of size are regularly offered on eBay.
Alternativey, try a local small engineering company - they may well let you have some leftover bits cheap.

[Sch3mat1c]

www.onlinemetals.com

[penance]

dnsey - I keep looking at ebay, but not found those sizes yet.

Sch3mat1c - Thats not a UK based company

[Duck-Twacy]

Originally posted by Sch3mat1c
www.onlinemetals.com

[offtopic sry]
Anybody ever thought of building an amp case in titanium

eg a plate of 12" * 12"; 0.5" thick costs $292.50 (nice for 2 fronts on mono blocks).

Very cool.

[daatkins]

Try giving Avery, Knight & Bowler a call. I've used them several times for aluminium bar, but I don't know what their brass stock is like.

Telephone: 01225 425 894
35 James Street West, Bath, Somerset BA1 2BT

http://design.anarres.org/shop_view.html?shop=2

Nice one,
David.

[Magura]

Originally posted by penance
Anyone know a good place to obtain brass?
I am looking for some 2"dia and 4 - 4.5" dia brass bar.

I have found a few stockists, but the prices are scarey.

I assume you're looking for a couple of small pieces.

If it is so, you should go have a chat with the guys at the local machine workshop. Chances are fair that they have what you need, and they won't charge you for shipping, cutting, administration and so forth.

A sixpack will take you far in such a place.

As for the price, as the wast majority of brass is copper, it's bound to be expensive and in particular right now. When buying copper bar in batches of 10 ton you pay roughly 6-7 GBP a kilogram. You are looking at a somewhat higher price per kilogram (if a chat and a sixpack dosn't make it), something like 10GBP a kilogram is not particulary expensive for a small piece.

Magura