current price of DOM and HREW tubing, Sep/08

[skark_burmer]

Im getting ready to 4 link my truck and build some bumpers, hoop and all sorts of other sillyness. Im pricing out DOM tubing, i'll use 2"od with a .250 wall thickness, cause its relatively easy to find. I'll also be buying HREW but to keep this simple i'll just focus on DOM.
the best price i can find on the net is $18.75 per foot. Can this be right? Nearly $20 a foot? Obviously there are quantity discounts, but even when i priced out four 10' sections the price drop wasnt that great. Then you get to pay freight...ouch.
I called my local steel place (Sims Metal in 95118) and asked for DOM tubing and the guy had no idea what i was talking about. He knew about all sorts of grades of aluminum plate and had a few sizes of pipe but when i asked for cold rolled structial tubing he was at a loss.

Im in the bay area, its not like im asking for this stuff in the middle of the Gobe desert!!!

What are other people paying, and where?

 

[1979jimmy350]

i bought some DOM a few months ago and paid $100 for 20 feet

 

[bigge]

Prices keep going up, but we are selling our 2.00 x .250 dom for $13.50 a foot.

 

[mo]

might want to try emj in hayward, they only sell in full sticks, but if you need 40 feet anyway, they are cheaper then everywhere else i look around here.

 

[protechk5]

i paid $575 for 110 feet of 1.75 .120 DOM to my door from a local steel shop when i did my cage last week

 

[4X4HIGH]

Call EMJ metals in hayward. They have the best prices here locally.

 

[skark_burmer]

thanks! will do.

 

[skark_burmer]

kick ass!!
Called them up and they have the 2"x 1/4" for $10 a foot.
they also have 2.25" x 1/4" for $12 a foot.
thanks for the lead guys, looks like im going to have a busy weekend! I dont have to pay shipping either!

Now where did i put the link for those evolution end links...

 

[eagle mark]

2.00 x.120 for my bumpers and rock sliders was $2.00 a foot. 1.50 x .120 was $1.75 foot... two months ago... these prices were for 20 foot stick.

 

[skark_burmer]

2.00 x.120 for my bumpers and rock sliders was $2.00 a foot. 1.50 x .120 was $1.75 foot... two months ago... these prices were for 20 foot stick.

Got the contact info?

 

[eagle mark]

CDA Metals in Dalten Gardens or Coeur d'Alene Idaho. But shipping will kill you...

EDIT: add phone number 208 292 0300 ask for Eric.

 

[skark_burmer]

Actually...That might work out.
Im talking to a guy about buying his truck and he lives in Idaho.
hmmm, time to start scheming.

If i go, anyone from the Gay Area want to get it on some?

 

[Stomper]

Actually...That might work out.
Im talking to a guy about buying his truck and he lives in Idaho.
hmmm, time to start scheming.

If i go, anyone from the Gay Area want to get it on some?

There is a whole lot of wrong in that last sentence

 

[rdn2blazer]

There is a whole lot of wrong in that last sentence

I thought so too but it made me laugh so thats all that really matters anyways lol!

 

[4X4HIGH]

Just goes to show what a mistake of one letter can make.

 

[skark_burmer]

lol, i just got that.
Yeah, im not the sharpest tool in the shed.
But sometimes its accurate. Each day i walk around downtown it seems like im the only guy that likes the vag.

 

[mo]

let me know, i might be in the market here shortly...

 

[rwright07]

i will be needing tube for a me and a friend to build bumpers soon, we are in SLO, but have a trailer and his home is the Bay area- we are thinking 1.75" .120 wall or .095 wall DOM but are willing to get something different if we can get an even better deal by all buying the same stuff....