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    Default Machinery and Material suppliers in Melbourne?

    Now that I have moved all the machinery across from Adelaide to Melbourne i am of course on the look out for suppliers here. But not having done much machine metalwork here I don't know the supplier network like i used to in Adelaide (and even then half of the mobs in Adelaide have closed down). This is also compounded by several of the places that I know about being shuttered for Coronavirus, and so not really knowing whether they are still there or just closed permanently (as driving across town to find out is less than ideal). Finally, it seems like lots of the tool places that I would have gone in the past have turned into generic resellers who don't particularly know much other than what they are selling. For example the guys at H&F had no idea what i was talking about when asking for Dymark or engineers blue layout dye; and the few tool shops I went to seemed confused when i asked about cutting paste and just pointed at the Treoflex spray. Similarly I called up a few of the local metal suppliers around here and none had any machining steel or aluminium rounds.

    Perhaps somewhat ironically, the older guys at Bunnings have been the most help with trying to get oriented here. But even then most of the places they suggest are long gone or shuttered from Coronavirus.

    Hence I am appealing to the wealth of knowledge on the forums and hoping that people can point me towards suppliers. I am in the inner west of Melbourne, so most places are relatively inconvenient (especially as lots of the machinery suppliers seem to be in Dandenong).

    Currently I'm searching for some layout blue (Dykem preferred), a good thick cutting/tapping paste (no idea what the tin i had last was, label had worn off in my Grandfather's day), and a supplier of steel and aluminium rounds and blocks.

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    I don't know how these guys in Williamstown compare to places on the east side of Melbourne but they do supply offcuts of steel and aluminium.
    I have bought from them several times and they are definitely handy to me being in Werribee.

    Metal Suppliers Melbourne - Steel Sales | Williamstown Metal Merchants

    You can get some engineering supplies from this mob in Newport - probably not far from you?

    https://www.yellowpages.com.au/vic/n...2-listing.html

    I haven't been there for a while but am guessing they are still going.

    Ray

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    Some of my go tos:

    Bearings: aa bearings and oil seals in nunawadding or BIS in braeside.

    I get most of my supplies online. My favourite paste is trefolex

    Steel: Vulcan steels (ex interlloy) in Dandenong.

    Aluminium: Auluminum express don't remember where they are as they courier to me which is cool.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Ray-s View Post
    I don't know how these guys in Williamstown compare to places on the east side of Melbourne but they do supply offcuts of steel and aluminium.
    I have bought from them several times and they are definitely handy to me being in Werribee.

    Metal Suppliers Melbourne - Steel Sales | Williamstown Metal Merchants

    You can get some engineering supplies from this mob in Newport - probably not far from you?

    https://www.yellowpages.com.au/vic/n...2-listing.html

    I haven't been there for a while but am guessing they are still going.

    Ray
    Thanks, i had forgotten about Williamstown Metals as they arent open on Saturdays for Shabbat. But given that they sell offcuts of steel and aluminium Ill probably just have to take an early afternoon some time and go down there (or just go at lunch during WFH)

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    Default hallam

    is Ian Stainsfield Smith in Hallam still in business, he has or had a large range of stuff ?

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    Hi Takai,

    I use the large square tip permanent markers for laying out ! Much cheaper than Dychem.

    I get mine in packs of four in four colours, they seem to last for ever, I'm still using some I got in 2010 when I started this hobby.
    Best Regards:
    Baron J.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BaronJ View Post
    Hi Takai,

    I use the large square tip permanent markers for laying out ! Much cheaper than Dychem.

    I get mine in packs of four in four colours, they seem to last for ever, I'm still using some I got in 2010 when I started this hobby.
    Yeah, ive been using Artlines for now. Still much prefer Dykem.

    If i cant get some locally ill have to wait until im in the US next, which Covid willing will be in November. Might be bringing back a bunch of US centric stuff then. Hopefully I wont have to convert the Dykem to metric!

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    I use Rocol cutting paste, high sulphur sticky smelly black stuff. From Waughs in Bayswater (Vic) They also have (or did have, been a while) spray cans of layout blue.
    Also in Bayswater - Action Aluminium have lots of offcuts, blocks of 5083 and 6061.
    Eastern suburb, usually a slow drive but maybe ok now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Neil317 View Post
    I use Rocol cutting paste, high sulphur sticky smelly black stuff. From Waughs in Bayswater (Vic) They also have (or did have, been a while) spray cans of layout blue.
    Also in Bayswater - Action Aluminium have lots of offcuts, blocks of 5083 and 6061.
    Eastern suburb, usually a slow drive but maybe ok now.
    Ah, thanks. Would normally go visit friends in the Basin if i was going to Bayswater... not for now though

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    You've got a Blackwoods in Altona North. They'll have just about everything you've mentioned.

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    Total tools on Geelong Rd has Dymark marking out blue

    Rolling bearings west in little boundary Rd if you are after bearings, or CBC is about 1km further up the road.
    There’s an engineers supply place just across the street from rolling bearings. Can’t recall the name - only been in there a couple of times. Counter staff vary in helpfulness.

    I’ve been working around that area for quite a few years so give me a yell if you’re chasing anything else.

    Steve

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    Quote Originally Posted by OxxAndBert View Post
    Total tools on Geelong Rd has Dymark marking out blue

    Rolling bearings west in little boundary Rd if you are after bearings, or CBC is about 1km further up the road.
    There’s an engineers supply place just across the street from rolling bearings. Can’t recall the name - only been in there a couple of times. Counter staff vary in helpfulness.

    I’ve been working around that area for quite a few years so give me a yell if you’re chasing anything else.

    Steve
    It was Total Tools in South Melbourne who said they only carry the spray cans now, not the liquid.

    For bearings i have been using Action Bearings in Kensington as they are just around the corner.

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    Quote Originally Posted by takai View Post
    Currently I'm searching for some layout blue
    I mix my own with these ingredients:
    - Methylated Spirits (Bunnings)
    - Shellack flakes (Bunnings)
    - Blue stamp ink (Stationary Supplier, e.g. Office works)

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    Quote Originally Posted by takai View Post
    It was Total Tools in South Melbourne who said they only carry the spray cans now, not the liquid.

    For bearings i have been using Action Bearings in Kensington as they are just around the corner.
    Bugger. Probably 18 months since I bought mine there so things have changed.

    Worthwhile giving ASAP Engineering a call to see if they have any, and that mob on Little Boundary Rd that I couldn't remember the name of is Swanston Engineering supplies.

    Steve

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ray-s View Post
    I don't know how these guys in Williamstown compare to places on the east side of Melbourne but they do supply offcuts of steel and aluminium.
    I have bought from them several times and they are definitely handy to me being in Werribee.

    Metal Suppliers Melbourne - Steel Sales | Williamstown Metal Merchants

    You can get some engineering supplies from this mob in Newport - probably not far from you?

    https://www.yellowpages.com.au/vic/n...2-listing.html

    I haven't been there for a while but am guessing they are still going.

    Ray

    im from the west as well. ive got aluminium off cuts from williamstown metal they sell by weight.
    from meemory asap has a wide range to
    aaron

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