Where to buy steel for panels in Auckland

[Pepo1]

Hi there,

I'm just starting out with mig welding and wanna buy some panel steel to start playing with. Where do people buy their steel in Auckland?

Cheers!

[M.H.]

Go to your local sheetmetal engineer and get some of his offcuts, box of piss usually covers it

[azzurro]

Probably depends where you are.

I use north shore metals in rosedale. They have offcuts and etc of bar stock but dont cut sheet steel on site. The ususly have some half sheets tho.

I think a full sheet (1200x2400) of ~1mm zintec was $45 or so last time i got one.

[flyingbrick]

Exactly. A full sheet for 45 is better than a few offcuts for a box of piss

[Mark_Fleming]

look up ironmaiden4 on trademe, they're in Onehunga and sell lots of steel items at very reasonable pricing....

[Jusepy82]

Hey could anyone give me an idea of what a full sheet of panel steel would cost now.

Im after either a half sheet or full sheet of 1mm sheet metal/panel steel ? 

Thanks

[kws]

Ive used these guys to send me sheets of panel steel before https://www.dunedinsheetmetals.co.nz/

I had real trouble finding anyone locally that would sell half sheets, or deliver small quantities to residential addresses.

[Jusepy82]

Thanks @kws.

We have a steel and tube here in Palmerston North that sells sheet metal, im going to ring them on tuesday and see what they do and dont do.

That site looks good , Il email them aswell.

[Nominal]

7 minutes ago, Jusepy82 said:

Thanks @kws.

We have a steel and tube here in Palmerston North that sells sheet metal, im going to ring them on tuesday and see what they do and dont do.

That site looks good , Il email them aswell.

Last time I bought a full sheet of 1mm cold rolled it was $65+gst. That was in 2021.

[Jusepy82]

Thanks @Nominal.

Was shitting myself that it would be expensive as.

[Nominal]

It's probably more now, and extra for the electrogalv/zintec type, and delivery but likely affordable. The plain cold rolled does rust, I spray it with crc to keep that in check. 

[Doug Hill]

47 minutes ago, Nominal said:

Last time I bought a full sheet of 1mm cold rolled it was $65+gst. That was in 2021.

I'm paying 88+gst for 0.8mm cold rolled, or there abouts 

[Jusepy82]

What thickness would you guys reccomend for panel steel for an escort ?

[Doug Hill]

1-1.6 depending on what you're replacing. I haven't come across anything 0.8 on any of the ones I've done at work (that I can remember) most stuff I've done on those is 1.2 I think

[Jusepy82]

I was thinking 1mm as measuring the metal that came off it was 1mm