Stainles Steel?

[funomenal]

Hi Dan,

I bought a 5 X 10 foot stainless steel sheet for my tear drop last summer from cardo-industries.com . They are a "local" outfit near Sacramento(near cal expo). My sheet cost $110 but I had to pick it up myself. It was a thicker guage of stainless and was a bit tricky to work with. But it sure is beautiful!

Check them out

[Tripmaker]

Tripmaker,

Where did you get your Red painted aluminum from?


Ron

Amerimax in South Bristol, Indiana. I don't have the phone number with me.

[dhazard]

Thanks Funomental, I will check them out. What Gage did you use?

Dan

[funomenal]

Hi Dan,

I pulled my purchase order from 4/06:

60" X 144" stainless sheet (.05 guage) = $110

I also purchased 48" X 120" clear anondized sheet with a beautiful mirror finish. He told me a northern california t.d. manufacturer purchased these from him.

Cardo Industries 1054 El Camino Ave. Sacramento 916 922-7824
I believe the owners name is Curtis .

Ray

[dhazard]

Update, Still waiting for any Internet company to get back to me.
Cardo no longer has 60” sheets. I have found one local supplier that can order in a skid of 25 sheets of polished .020 60”x120” at $211 a sheet plus shipping.

I did find one supplier in Livermore CA. that has it for $250 a sheet.

The prices I have gotten for clear anodized aluminum is not much better.

Still looking
This is going to cut into my drinking money.

[Esteban]

DHAZARD, Maybe I can be of help.

https://walden.saf.com/safcustomerweb/orderorigin/OOFrame.aspx?Action=BeginSheetQuote takes you to saf.com's web page where you can price check aluminum sheets. When I looked, if you order 100 pounds or more of aluminum, they'd ship your order free.

I'm quoting myself below because I recently found better prices for alum. sheets from SAF.com. It's from a recent thread, ".024 aluminum for roof or side skin" in the Trailer and Chassis Secrets forum. I don't know how to provide a better link to the discussion thread.

SteveT, Thank you for the information on the thickness of alum. sheet you ordered from SAF.com to get lengths longer than 10 ft. and how you "stretched" a 5 ft. sheet to cover a 5 ft. 3 in. wide TD with 2 in. edge tirm on each side.

I made a trial alum. sheet order from SAF.com:
1 sheet of 0.063 x 60" x 144" ($2.78/sq. ft.) $166.80 (front and roof).
1 sheet of 0.040 x 60" x 120" ($1.76/sq. ft.) $88.00 (hatch).
2 sheets of 0.040 x 48" x 120" ($1.76/sq. ft.) $140.80 (sides).

The total cost today from SAF.com would be $395.60 to skin a 5 ft. x 10 ft. TD with alum. sheet. I didn't figure trim pieces into the estimate. This is over a 100 lb. order, so shipping would be free.

I'm also considering using Filon for some, or all, of my TD's skin. It costs $3/sq. ft. from RV Surplus http://www.rvsurplussalvage.com/catalog/display.php?product_id=1879

Thanks for your generous help,

Steve B. aka Esteban

HTH, Steve B. aka Esteban

[vairman]

A cheaper choice in Stainless Steel is not to buy polished but get dual directional sanded Stainless Steel. It looks polished but a lot cheaper...

Greg