I need a block of steel for a project but checking online, I cannot get it in the dimensions I need it in.

The size is 7x6x5". Gonna check with my old machinist boss but maybe all you DTR'ers know where to look.

Thanks!

Jon

 

Thats thick, Dont think most metal supply would have that. Maybe shipyard would have old prop shaft or something that thick.

 

Scrap price has been up, you have a scrap yard you can scrounge for something that thick, might get lucky right now. Maybe cut asection out of an old press, vice, or some other tool. Even seen sections of train track and pieces of freight cars in the scrap yard.

 

give your local Ryerson Tull or EMJ a call. they can fix you up.
alternatively, if you have any contacts at a foundry, they can pour you the block you need as a weld coupon. Whats your plans for a 60# boat anchor?

 

Foundry......railroad rail is the largest scrap I've found........makes a small anvil.

 

Yes! Makes an excellent portable anvil. Like to have it handy for repairing chains. Most of the time, you won't even have to remove a tire chain from a tractor for a quick repair, if you have a small piece of rail to tuck under it.

Also a 6-8" length is good to grade with. Have a small trailer frame with a section attached by 2 short chains at each end, mounted between the tongue and the axle. Raise the chains when not grading, lower with enough length for the wheels to ride up on the rail for added weight/down pressure. No bouncing this way. Way better than a backblade leaving no washboard. Real heavy to fill potholes. I usually save the backblade to recover gravel from the shoulders.

 

Heavy as heck though.......one solid piece of steel.

 

Also hit rocks and it doesn't bend or crack or wear out like a backblade, and under the trailer, no shock to the 3 point.

 

Scrap yards and steel suppliers often have drops you can get right.

 

A part for my truck.

The actual measurements are 6.02"x5.24"x4.24" but every side needs to be milled right for mating and have no leaks.

 

Are you building your own fuel pump frame??? or maybe a milled steel intake horn???

 

How much you willing to pay?

The kid I've been working with carries around a piece about that size on his shoulders!

He doesn't seem to use it.

 

Close.

And I am milling the intake log off....

 

i work at an electric motor repair shop and we have all kinds of round stock up to 10in dia, for making new rotor shafts. you might try a shop near where you live. our mother shop in evansville IN fab motors from scratch and would have any thing you would want. Flanders Electric motor service.


Dar

 

"Makes an excellent portable anvil. Like to have it handy for repairing chains."

Sorry, could help it, but...I can't somehow recall the last time I thought hey, maybe I should be carrying a portable anvil in case I might to to repair a chain.