Be creative. If what you need is not available, you can:

1.) Saw cut or Mill it from plate, round bar or forged block

2.) Forge it

3.) Hot roll it from round or flat bar - conversion

4.) Plane or mill it from round bar

Here are shops who can provide these service.

1.) SAW CUT OR MILL IT

Many production saw cutting shops can take large diameter round and cut to square and flats

Pacific Metal Cutting - 714-729-2480 (excellent shop, speak with Mark, a former Fry Steel employee, he is super creative and he also stocks 15-5PH and 13-8MO vac melted blocks so he can often quote the whole job in flats and squares.

Able Bar Milling - 800-522-8800 - NOTE - This is an EXTREMELY expensive process and you will not see a return bid for at least 1-2 days.

Cartright Profiling - 714-828-6782 - Talk to Mel - West coast bar milling company better pricing than Able and quotes over the phone...They can cut flats, squares and hexes from rounds

2.) FORGE IT

Many forge shops can produce what are called "mandrel rings" to replicate tubing in short lengths, generally over 3" OD. Here are some favorites:

Viking Iron Works - 845-471-5010 - If you don't work with Viking yet, I strongly recommend that you start soon. Excellent forge shop, run by Rick Kunkel and his brothers. Extensive inventory, willing and able to do short lead time jobs, often in 2-3 weeks.

Western Forge & Flange Company - 800-352-6433 - Another great little forge shop who can offer faster than normal turnaround on an extremely wide variety of stainless and nickel alloys. Speak with James.

3.) HOT ROLL IT

There are a few shops out there who can hot roll round bar to squares, flats and hexes. Only consider these when you have a decent quantity (>200 feet) and some time to work with.

Braeburn Alloy Steel - (800) 33897 - Best in the business, period. They make the very best quality flats and squares out there, period. They make the very best quality flats and squares out there - talk to Clem

 

ANOTHER OPTION....PLANNING

Valco Precision Planing - Bert - 323-582-6355 bert@valcoprecision.com

Planing is an old art by which metal is cut in a manner of widdling material with a single blade/cutter. This is a method long abandoned since the development of machining centers and especially with the new technology of CNC machining.

There are, however, still applications in which you cannot beat this technology. Such as applications that require straight, flat and parallelism in an excessive long part. Also, the cutters are made to conform to sections of the shape being machined and can access difficult to reach areas.