Does anyone still manufacture anything in (Western) Australia!!!

**nice1guv** · 5th November 2009, 03:33 PM

Does it have to be Ali?

This place is good for stainless steel, but it will cost you: Prochem: Home

**nice1guv** · 5th November 2009, 03:36 PM

Originally Posted by isuzurover

Did you read my first post???

I did, but posted it anyway!?

**Bigbjorn** · 5th November 2009, 04:00 PM

Get any decent fabrication shop to roll up your requirement from plate and weld the seam.

**nice1guv** · 5th November 2009, 04:17 PM

**isuzurover** · 5th November 2009, 06:01 PM

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

Get any decent fabrication shop to roll up your requirement from plate and weld the seam.

I had thought of that, but that is one extra weld I don't have to leak test... And at the prices they charge over here, it would probably cost more.

After doing a run around all the local scrap metal dealers with no luck, I bit the bullet and ordered a full length from onesteel. Anyone need 5m of 203mm Al tube???

**LandyAndy** · 5th November 2009, 08:51 PM

You could build a special BLING rollbar for the old girl with that

Andrew

**Tank** · 5th November 2009, 09:26 PM

Ben, looks like you are going to make some sort of pressure vessel, what about a old alloy Oxy bottle (smaller ones), or even an old fire extinguisher, the scrap yards should have some, Regards Frank.

**350RRC** · 5th November 2009, 09:39 PM

Do they still make 'whoopee' in WA?

cheers, DL

**isuzurover** · 6th November 2009, 12:24 AM

Originally Posted by Tank

Ben, looks like you are going to make some sort of pressure vessel, what about a old alloy Oxy bottle (smaller ones), or even an old fire extinguisher, the scrap yards should have some, Regards Frank.

Great ideas, but OH&S would crucify me if they found out I had been cutting up and welding (or getting the tech staff to weld) things like that.

**whitakerb** · 6th November 2009, 12:52 AM

Originally Posted by isuzurover

I am trying to buy some large diameter, heavy wall aluminium tube for a project at work. So far no joy. Capral can supply me with some ex Victoria if I wait 2 weeks.

For a state/country which supplies most of the world's aluminium, you would think that aluminium products would be readily available????

I don't suppose anyone has any 200mm OD +/-5mm, Al tube with 3+ mm wall lying around do they???

Well as luck would have it, I work for Capral. We have a manufacturing site in Canningvale where I keep the machines running, however our 7" 1690 tonne press doesn't produce the material you want.

There are bigger presses over east. I'll have a look on our ally rack tomorrow, as I think we grabbed some large section anodized hollow tube last time we saw it in the factory.

Capral are the only company who mass produces Extrusions in Oz, and as everything else goes, we have been loosing to the Chinese competition. However, just this week the Gov't has just brought in a 16% tax on imported extrusions, so we are going to be very competitive with the Chinese opposition again. Before this, the only benefit for buying Australian Ally was a 2 week turn around on metal as apposed to the Chinese 6-8 Weeks.

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