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I'm looking for good sources of some mild steel rods for axles. I'd *like*
to get them pre-cut in about 3" lengths. Does anyone have a favorite source
for these ?

All I've found so far at McMaster and MSC is tool steel or hardened steel.

Thanks !
JCD


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Try the hardware store, 3 ft lengths are a common stocked item.

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Tool steel is ground to diameter and isn't hard. You can saw it with a hacksaw.
It is ready for working with.

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pogo wrote:
I'm looking for good sources of some mild steel rods for axles. I'd *like*
to get them pre-cut in about 3" lengths. Does anyone have a favorite source
for these ?

All I've found so far at McMaster and MSC is tool steel or hardened steel.

Thanks !
JCD



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pogo wrote:

I'm looking for good sources of some mild steel rods for axles. I'd *like*
to get them pre-cut in about 3" lengths. ...


You didn't spec the diam, but at 3" long would 1/4" do? Enco 240-2244
1018 alloy 1/4" x 6': $2.17. Or 3/16" drill rod x 3': $1.09. As far as
"cut to length", I can't help. Bob
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Don't know about other places, but at the local hardware stores here,
the "drill rod" is drawn mild steel shafting. You can tell by the lack
of the ground finish. But it would be exactly what you need for your
axles or pivots, since you say you aren't machining them. Machines
like bubble gum, bandsaw cuts it like cheese, though. I'm assuming
that you're using these for something that isn't too critical,
toy-making perhaps.

Stan



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I wouldn't call that drill rod by any means. It is junk metal that is good
for odds and ends. Zinc coated.

I call drill rod in 3 classes : 1. Heat treat oil cool. 2. Air cool 3. real center less ground high grade.
I have some of all. The center less I have - was from the company that makes drill blanks
for Latrobe(sp) for drills and mills.

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Don't know about other places, but at the local hardware stores here,
the "drill rod" is drawn mild steel shafting. You can tell by the lack
of the ground finish. But it would be exactly what you need for your
axles or pivots, since you say you aren't machining them. Machines
like bubble gum, bandsaw cuts it like cheese, though. I'm assuming
that you're using these for something that isn't too critical,
toy-making perhaps.

Stan


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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.
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On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 01:36:34 -0600, Don Foreman
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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.

OK, but plastic wheels were not, to my knowlege, specified. It's
entirely possible, however, that I missed it.

I have often used "fixture pipe" for light axles. Find an old table
lamp and pull it apart - the tube up the center that holds it all
together, and that the cord runs up, is pretty strong - and if it's
the right length you can use the"fixture nuts" to hold the wheel on.
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Any steel is quite sufficient for axles to be used with plastic
wheels.

OK, but plastic wheels were not, to my knowlege, specified. It's
entirely possible, however, that I missed it.


Not specified in this thread, but he must have noticed some of my other
posts and deduced that.
He's correct !

Anyway, thanks for the info !
JCD


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

OK, but plastic wheels were not, to my knowlege, specified. It's
entirely possible, however, that I missed it.


Not specified in this thread, but he must have noticed some of my other
posts and deduced that.
He's correct !


It was obvious in the photos to which you posted links.

Enjoy,
DoN.

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