Where to buy 8020 online

Graphite Dave Dave Orton. Bought mine from a local T-Slot fabricator to avoid expensive shipping. Not in your area but maybe there is a similar place in your area. Fabricator also cut the 20' lengths so they would fit in the van. You can save a significant amount of money if you make most of the connectors and buy the fasteners from a local industrial supply company.

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If you can do me a favor. Never buy nuts and bolts from aluminum extrusion dealers. The quotes I've gotten are completely insane, easily x3 the price. If you want to spend that kind of money, go to your local nut and bolt store and buy stainless steel bolts.

For us Canadians, getting aluminum extrusion is quiet expensive if you're not willing to cross the border. Fortunately there are services at the border that can bring it over, but do the math to find out if you're actually saving money.

These companies are willing to bring stuff over the border for you if you're willing to ship to their US destination and your willing to pay a small fee. This is one of the reasons why OSR doesn't want to supply you aluminum extrusion. It varies so much from country to country and if you're willing to put in some work you can get it for fairly cheap without having us to double handle it and charge for shipping it to us and then to you. Our value is added in coming up with better designs, not in handling aluminum extrusion!

I hope this article clarifies some things about aluminum extrusion and takes down some barriers for building with aluminum extrusion. I hope you see your builds! A small contribution from me is that not only size matters here but shape as well. I mean that shape of the profile differs between vendors which is something critical in terms of using accessories and gussets and corner brackets and all that kind of stuff. Many of these these parts are not compatible from one company to the other.

Also the width of the slot is different, for most of the vendors it is 8mm but for some others it is 10mm which also affects the use of the various accessories. There is nothing worse than buying cheap T-Nuts from China, only to find your nuts are too big to go into the nice polished slot.

Every good extrusion retailer of provides detailed section drawings, so double check you slot widths before ordering If you are looking for small section extrusion for accessories, then OpenBuilds. Extrusion Profile Section is important. The other thing about size matters, is the section of extrusion often it comes in light weight VS standard weight, so what looks like a really good deal sometimes can be a very thin wall section extrusion.

This does not need to be a bad thing, but you need to consider where it is being used and how much stress it's under. In sim rigs we don't really put much stress on monitor arms, shifters mount, wheel mounts, but seat mounting frames often take the most stress. If you sim rig is suspended on casters then profile size is very important! Standard hardware Vs custom hardware.

Custom may not be more expensive and looks better because OpenSimRigs custom plates are competitively priced even though we are making small very quantities at the moment. But you can consider brushed stainless steel in 14 gauge thickness, because it's stiffer, it laser cute to perfection, the edge is polished after cutting and looks really awesome.

We have all seen how brushed stainless is used in high end kitchen appliances. Custom parts can also be cut from mild steel to save a little and if you want to apply some colour to you rig. Mild steel parts can be easily sprayed at home or taken to local a powder coating specialist. I have some 25 series extrusion and need to get some t slot nuts.

I see lots advertised for sale matching the 20 series. Does anyone know if these will work with the 25 series? Based on the dimensional drawings I've seen I'm guessing so, but maybe with a little slop? Anyone have real world experience? Does anyone have a parts list for a rig? I'd love to see how the cost compares to a sim-lab etc.