[USMA:35434] Re: sheet metal

[J. Ward]

I would love to know if there is a local supplier of metric sized sheet 
and bar stock in Los Angeles.  Our shops at the Jet Propulsion 
Laboratory only stock hard-inch sizes, so in my designs I'll often have 
a few soft conversions like 6.35 mm to use "standard" sheet metal 
sizes.  McMaster Carr sells a few metric sizes of stock metals, but they 
don't follow the preferred number series, and they aren't really a stock 
metal supplier.

I will point out that JPL does stock a wide array of metric fasteners, 
and I think that the majority of drawings being machined are 
hard-metric, usually with metric-only dimensions rather than dimensioned 
in dual units.

J.

Pierre Abbat wrote:

Is anyone in the USA making sheet metal in Renard numbers of millimeters 
instead of gauges?

phma