On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:37:54 -0700, Gunner Asch
wrote:
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 06:02:03 -0700, Larry Jaques
wrote:

Is there another name for SuperStrut. I looked also for Unistrut at
the home depot web site but couldn't find any listing for it. Any
place besides Home Depot to look for this sort of steel?

It will be called a multitude of things depending on who made it,
usually with 'strut' in the name. Trademarks, dont'cha know... ;-)

McMaster: Strut Channel. They aren't giving it away, but it's the
good stuff. (Though you'll need the rubber hoses and bamboo slivers
to get the supplier name out of them without just ordering some...)

I bought some 1-5/8" square Unistrut at HD last year, when I bought my
truck. I cut it and used it in place of the $165 (through Toyota) bed
rail system. Cost: $20 for a 10' stick, $20 more for some t-nuts,
bolts, & pipe clamps. The low-profile stuff (1-5/8" x 13/16", no
holes) was $15/stick.

They don't show it online, but it's in the electrical section.
Sparkies use it for hanging conduit. (Right, Bruce?)

If you can't find it at your local HD, call some of the electrical
supply houses (Platt Electric Supply up here in PNW) for it. It'll be
$35-44 a stick, but you'll find it. What a crock!


Im paying $11.24 a stick at Hanks Electric in Costa Mesa, California

Yeah, but is that the good stuff? Or coming out of the Glorious
Peoples Republic Steel Foundry and Rice Noodle Factory in Shanghai?
(And it suspiciously bends like a noodle under stress...)

You might not want Mr. Electrical Inspector to try a chin-up using a
length of the fake strut as the exercise bar - after he gets out of
the hospital... He's gonna come back and pick the place apart with a
microscope, and he'll bring all his inspector buddies from the other
specialties. Talk about 'proctologically violated'...

Nobody Pays Full Retail in Los Angeles unless they are either brain
dead or terminally lazy, or in a severe time bind. All the warehouses
are here. In a small town I can see $35 plus for what we get for $20,
just for shipping and stocking.

-- Bruce --