I need a piece of Square aluminum or steel tubing, 1/4" x 1/4" x 3 or
4 feet.

There used to be a web retailer, Metal Express, that did nothing but
sell various kinds of metal, rods, screws, angle iron, tubing, etc
(and tools probably) but even though it's still in google, its links
are dead.**

Anyone know a place that would have this?


I don't think they sell this at HD or Lowes, but their webpage is so
bad it's not worth checking. I'll go to the store tomorrow, but I
think I would remember. Huh! HD and Lowes online do show it, but not
small enough. Only 3/4 or 1".

Lowes marks its tubing Steelworks, but I havent' found them. HD marks
theirs Crown Bolt which seems to be a wholey owned subsid of HD (well,
no, they're owned by 3 equity firms, like Chrysler), so they won't
have anything HD doesn't. Their webpage isnt' set up for selling
anyhow. Crown Screw and Bolt doesnt' seem to sell tubing and has
only one location, close to where I lived 45 years ago.

Ace Hardware online has it but only in 12 inch pieces.



I don't know the exact length. A guy from Freecycle gave me a
projection screen today, which I plan to give to someone else. The
top, smaller, piece of telescoping square tubing is missing, and I'm
not sure how long it must be. When I find what's for sale, I'll try
again to figure out how long it should be. Four feet, I think.


**"This is Google's cache of http://www.metalexpress.net/. It is a
snapshot of the page as it appeared on Dec 24, 2009 22:24:40 GMT."

So they must have taken down their webapage in the last 9 days.