anyone know where i can buy an assortment of variousm plastic
round/square stock for small hoem projects?--using small jewlers lathe
looking for nylon especially--odd ends and pieces
tia
peter

Good hobby and art stores will have styrene in various shapes. Most
are too "flat" to turn on a lathe reasonably.

MSC (http://www.mscdirect.com/) sells nylon rods/squares/tubes as short
as one foot for very reasonable prices.

Tim.

On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 09:05:46 GMT, ilaboo wrote:

anyone know where i can buy an assortment of variousm plastic
round/square stock for small hoem projects?--using small jewlers lathe
looking for nylon especially--odd ends and pieces
tia
peter

Call around the local machine shops and find out who does plastics
machining. They often have dumpsters filled with drops

Gunner

"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire.
Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us)
off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give
them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the **** out of you
for torturing the cat." Gunner

ilaboo wrote:

anyone know where i can buy an assortment of variousm plastic
round/square stock for small hoem projects?--using small jewlers lathe
looking for nylon especially--odd ends and pieces
tia
peter

Onlinemetals.com has some plastic assortment packs that seem to be
similar to what you are seeking

Koz

Lee valley has an assortment of UHMW (3 pounds) for $13.50cnd
http://www.leevalley.com/hardware/pa...=3,43576,43581


ilaboo wrote:
anyone know where i can buy an assortment of variousm plastic
round/square stock for small hoem projects?--using small jewlers lathe
looking for nylon especially--odd ends and pieces
tia
peter

Mcmaster-Carr www.mcmaster.com has sample kits of various sizes of
specific types of plastics. Woodcrafts Supply also has assortment kits
of UHMW and nylon scraps for low friction jigs.