[757labs] Fwd: Hampton Roads electronics flea market?

[telmnstr at 757.org]

> That's a good idea, having engineered materials. It would be great to be
> able to run to the swapmeet/tech exchange and pick up some custom cut
> lengths of aluminum t-slot.
^^^^

Chances are you aren't going to find much aluminum tslot like that.

Ebay is an okay source.

If you're willing to roadtrip, I have a mathod I found to get some cheap 
but it might involve long road trips.

I've contacted every scrap yard in the area that I could. Only one has a 
public lot where you can look around, and I only ever found a single piece 
there. They said they had a mountain of it, but it was all gone. Most 
likely it was stolen/abandoned/walked off from the Ford plant when it shut 
down.

I had a lead on a factory that was made of the stuff but word came back 
that the owner (Bosch) was shipping everything back overseas.