Bob La Londe writes:

Ugh! [Reid SUpply] website does one thing I absolutely despise. If
they don't have what you are searching for it shows hundreds of
items that aren't what you are looking for.

"Do you have any tool steel?"

"Would you like to buy some frozen chickens?"

Fawwwk!

Happens in Real Life(tm). I once went into a metal supplier, asked
for (I forget the number, 6000 maybe?) pure aluminum 1/16" sheet.
explained at length that I would be hand-working it and needed the
softest, most malleable, most ductile material possible.

After checking inventory, the Guy replied that they had none in stock
but suggested that they sell me this other alloy of which they had
plenty. I pointed out that it was the alloy used for ship hulls and
dump truck boxes, the most deformation-refractory one in the list.

His reply? "Availability has to be worth *something*, doesn't it?"


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Mike Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada