Just getting started in metalworking. Orderd a Taig and parts.
Looking for a place in Houston where I can get metal and supplies.
Any suggestions?

Thanks

In the yellow pages, try metal, steel, welding.

Call some local company that does the kind of work you want to do, and
ask them who their supplier is. I did that when I got started, and
still use the same steel supplier recommended to me years ago.

Richard


James Holbrook wrote:
Just getting started in metalworking. Orderd a Taig and parts.
Looking for a place in Houston where I can get metal and supplies.
Any suggestions?

Thanks

Look up Metal Supermarkets. They sell just about anything and they'll cut
it to order with no minimum. Right across the street is a Wholesale Tool
store too. It's out near 290 and Hollister on Hempstead.

Robert

"James Holbrook" wrote in message
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Just getting started in metalworking. Orderd a Taig and parts.
Looking for a place in Houston where I can get metal and supplies.
Any suggestions?

Thanks

You're in luck. The is an home metal shop club in your area that should
provide a lot of help: http://www.homemetalshopclub.org./



"James Holbrook" wrote in message
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Just getting started in metalworking. Orderd a Taig and parts.
Looking for a place in Houston where I can get metal and supplies.
Any suggestions?

Thanks

James Holbrook wrote:
Just getting started in metalworking. Orderd a Taig and parts.
Looking for a place in Houston where I can get metal and supplies.
Any suggestions?

Thanks

Arshram Scrap Metal will let you poke around in their junk pile and
will sell you stuff. What you find at any given moment is largely a
matter of luck. They get stainless bars, aluminium plate and bars, a
bottomless pit of transmission parts (good place to find metric bolts),
wire...often still on the factory roll and unused, cutoffs from machine
shops etc. If you go in looking for a 1.25 inch stainless rod, you
will never find one. If you go in looking for useful looking pieces of
scrap that might be used in a project someday, you will spend $5
everytime you go. And eventually, you might get lucky and find the 1.25
inch stainless rod...maybe...

Arshram is near the intersection of 290 and 529 (Spencer road), which
is close to the intersection of Sam Houston and 290.

Brownnsharp

Just wanted to thank everyone for the replies.
I've mapped out several places and am going to hit them on Tuesday.

Thanks again

James Holbrook wrote:
Just getting started in metalworking. Orderd a Taig and parts.
Looking for a place in Houston where I can get metal and supplies.
Any suggestions?

Thanks