Looking for a good place to buy Aluminum

[TJay 1041]

Looking for a good place to buy Aluminum here. Need to make my engine plate. specs call for 3/8th"       10/5/8th by 9 inches but all I see in spruce or wicks is up to 1/8 inch thick unless Im blind which has happened before.

[EDMO 1078]

I don't Know if Shapiro Metals in St. Louis will ship a piece, but think they might. They cut to order, and I buy almost all my steel and aluminum there.

EDMO

[Luked 71]

You might try these guys if you can't find anywhere else.

 

http://www.onlinemetals.com/merchant.cfm?pid=1249&step=4&showunits=inches&id=76&top_cat=60

 

I've bought from them several times, and I've been happy. I assumed you were looking for 6061 T6 since it's the most common. The thicker plates only seem to come in T651, but from what I understand, that's preferable to T6 anyway because it removes internal stressed caused by the tempering process.

[Av8r_Sed 82]

You could try either onlinemetals.com or speedymetals.com if you want it shipped. If you get to Sioux Falls or Sioux City you should be able to find a steel supplier who will work with you.

[EDMO 1078]

Tjay,

What about calling Kitfox and see if they will sell you that aluminum plate - might be cheaper than buying the material and getting it machined? But then again, its Kitfox!

EDMO

Edited 20 Jan 2015 by Ed In Missouri

[TJay 1041]

ya know this is amazing I did look at those two webpages and found just what I needed for 42 bucks, but didn't buy it yet because I saw they had an eBay page so I followed the link.  Of course what I needed they didn't have listed but that got me to thinking, I have never looked at metals on eBay, So I typed in 6061-t6 .375 and 100s showed up all over just what I need.  Found a plate just my size under 5 bucks, now the trick here is,  I wonder if it really is 6061 t-6 because the cheap ones don't have a stamp on them but say there 6061 t6. the ones with a stamp are around 40 bucks. Makes a guy wonder doesn't it.

[TJay 1041]

Oh yeah Ed, John said they do not really produce many parts for the early kitfoxes anymore. I asked him about the side mount brackets for the 582 to bolt up to a side rail mount, he said they stopped making that stuff. I think they really like the 912 these days.

Edited 20 Jan 2015 by TJay

[EDMO 1078]

John scrounged around his old parts last year and found one piece of a Kitfox 5 Grove gear mount that I needed.

EdmO