I’m obviously not a metallurgist, nor am I someone who deals with metal piping and tubing on a regular basis… cause I didn’t know the difference till this morning… But now I do. Tubing works off a particular outside diameter.. Pipe presumably works off an interior diameter, though weirdly, it doesn’t necessarily match with the actual ID… hmmmm
Anyway, I got pricing for Stainless and Aluminum, sort of. They didn’t have any of the diameters that I was asking about, which moved me to a slightly different Stainless (316 to 304), so I expect these numbers to shift around.. but I have ballpark numbers so I can begin budgeting. The bummer thing though is that what they said they have available (that I have pricing for) would give me roughly a 6″ dia drum, though I am wanting about 8″.. I will need to shop around some, cause at least I now know it is out there. And too, I did get the name and number of a guy who collects remnants, which should work great cause I don’t really need to buy 16′ of Stainless tubing.
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