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Don Foreman
 
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Default looking for sources of mild steel rods for axles

On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 19:23:32 -0500, clare at snyder.on.ca wrote:


I'd suggest for axles yu might want to use something a bit stronger
than mild steel. Drill rod is great, but there are other alloys
available that are stonger than mild. Try your local "metal
supermarket" or equivalent. You definitely want CRS if you are in the
US or Canada. Can't remember what the Britts and other colonials call
it - but it is "brite".


Any steel is quite sufficient for axles to be used with plastic
wheels.