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February 2025 Newsletter
February 1, 2025 (Newsletters)

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FIRE SALE

New items are added weekly including:

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21/64" Rd A-2 Drill Rod, 36" Long

On Sale for $24.07.

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1" Rd 4140 Cold Finished, Annealed, 18.25" Long

On Sale for $17.16.

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1/4" x 3/4" A-2 Tool Steel Flat, De-Carb Free, 12.75" Long

On Sale for $20.38.

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Not what you're looking for? We have dozens of other items available now:

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CUSTOMER SPOTLIGHT

This month we're featuring customer Tim Alho, who built this Flathead Piston Table for his den.

flathead piston table

He says:

I was rebuilding a Flathead Ford V8 engine and accumulated a lot of spare parts. When the rebuild was completed, I had several pistons and connecting rods left over so I thought I would use them to make a table art project for my den.

I selected three connecting rods and cut them in half. Then with some 3/4” square steel from Speedy Metals, I welded in 20” into the length of the connecting rod that was milled out to match the H-shape of the rod. I built a bending fixture out of some flat plate and some round stock, then bent the newly elongated rods to form the legs.

The pistons were reattached to the rods, then the legs were assembled together with a center support that resembled another piston. The final step was to top it off with a circle of smoked, tempered plate glass to finish the table. It turned out great!!






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What You're Saying:

"I ordered a single cast iron rod online then received a call the next day stating it was ready for pickup. The two guys who assisted me were polite and nice. Handed me the part, asked for a signature, and that was that."

-Anonymous

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Did You Know...?

...that scientists have harnessed the power of corrosion to create new, lightweight alloys?

Alloying is the process of mixing metals with other elements to create a new material with desired properties. Dealloying is its opposite - "a corrosive process that degrades materials over time by selectively removing elements, weakening their structure".

Now, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials have figured out how to use both processes at once, to strategically remove oxygen atoms from a material's matrix and replace them with nitrogen to create new, lightweight nano-structured porous martensitic alloys with "precise microstructure control from the millimeter down to the atomic scale." These new alloys have numerous engineering applications, which could be important in the future.

Learn more in the full article here.

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