Online Metals Blog

It’s light weight, it’s thin, it’s aluminum, and it’s here.

We didn’t think 1/8 inch was thin enough, so we’ve added 1/16 wall aluminum angle and flat bar!

Yeah, I know…that’s practically aluminum foil. But this stuff holds it’s shape WAY better than a roll of Reynolds!

.062 6063 Aluminum Angle and .062 6061 Aluminum Flat Bar

I’ve been hard pressed to find another supplier for this material, so tell your friends!

Well this is a new one. A customer who wanted to unsubscribe wrote this:

“The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties,donations and benefits”
Plutarch 45 to 125 A.D.

Hadn’t seen that one before.

Anyway, thanks for sending it Mr. Customer. Your name has been removed.

We don’t ever want to be considered spammers.

So we’ll stay in touch with the people who want to hear from us from time to time, and promise to respect the privacy of customers who’d rather be left alone.

Either way…it’s Wednesday people! We’re half way through the work week. TIME TO CELEBRATE!

If you wonder what our company does…well, our logo says it all. We sell metal…and plastics too!

We’ve got just about every size shape and flavor…and just about every metal alloy and plastic grade known to man, plant, animal ,and some aliens.

Unfortunately, in my recent newsletter, I forgot to include the:

So, I’m writing a formal apology. Not to our plastics managers, who let me know I’d forgotten the logo about 15 minutes after our newsletter was sent out.

To our customers!!!

You need to know about every single product we carry in our inventory. All 866 plastic items…and the others we’ll bring into our inventory soon.

So check out our Newsletter,
Our New Products Page
and of course…

OUR PAGE!

The OnlineMetals team wants to wish their own dads…and all of the OLM dads out there a Very Happy Father’s Day!!!

We want to know what you think!

Where do you go to see user reviews on a restaurant, store, or company? Most people we’ve talked to said Yelp!

Well, we’ve got a Yelp profile, but only one user review. We’d like you to help us change that. Go to Yelp, and share your thoughts about OnlineMetals.com

Here’s our Yelp Profile:
http://www.yelp.com/biz/online-metals-seattle#atb_alias:AboutThisBizHistory/query:OnlineMetals

Thanks in advance!!!

Old way: Drop Down Menu

New way: Radio Buttons

Zoomed In:

Why?
*Easier for some.
*More aesthetically pleasing for others.
*JUST BECAUSE WE CAN!!!

Hope you like it!

Well, I feel terrible. I got so wrapped up in MakerFaire, that I didn’t get a chance to read blogger e-mails. As a result, I wasn’t able to cogradulate John and his lovely new bride until now.

They were married on June 6th…and we wish then nothing but the best!!!

Here’s the message Jim sent me a couple of weeks ago:

Amber / Online Metals Blog:

I am a hobby machinist and - with much pride - have actually put together a small machine / metal working shop in my (very small) NYC apartment. Given my urban location paired with the fact that I don’t own a car, I buy a lot of my metal online. I’m also an avid follower of your blog

I am very excited to be getting married in a few weeks (June 6th is the big day!) and I decided to make my wedding ring on my 7×14 lathe (don’t worry - my fiancee’s was purchased from a proper Jeweler ;)). I did some research and determined that stainless should be best for wear and aesthetic. You guys had the best selection of choices, so I purchased a few different varieties (303, 304, 316…) in early April. After a few nights of experimenting, I have finished my ring! Attached are a few photo’s.

Thanks for carrying such a wide selection and helping out us ’small guys.’ Feel free to browse more of work and adventures at www.nyccnc.com.

Best,

John

John,

Thanks again for your business, and your submission to the blog. I’m sure your wife is very proud of you for taking the time to create a wedding band. Hand made, one of a kind. That’s pretty special!

Congrats, congrats, congrats! From the entire OnlineMetals team. We wish you the best.

Jim writes:

Amber,

I hope this is ‘blog-worthy” for you. It was nice to meet you last week when I came in to pick up a length of 3/4″ square aluminum tubing. I build custom antennas to receive over-the-air (OTA) FREE high-definition television (HDTV)

In this economy, buying an antenna system rather than ‘renting’ one at $80 buck per month makes a lot of sense to a lot of people. Also, cable and satellite signals are compressed and they are not quite true HD — but OTA is true HDTV and even my old eyes can see the difference.

The attached are a couple shots of my “Project-48″ antenna, which I built using materials from ONLINEMETALS. I engineered this antenna specifically to capture our local (Seattle) KING TV channel 5, which will vanish from the VHF world and move to UHF channel 48 in about three weeks.

On its first test, not only did it capture “channel 5″ (5.1) but there is a 5.2 transmitted from “KING” as well. It also captured 8 more HDTV (new to me) channels, making my (personal) total viewable FREE HD channels 30 —– so far.

I am now designing “Project 38″ intended to capture KOMO-4 (moving to 38) and it should do double-duty, as KIRO-7 is moving to channel 39.

Thanks for the fast help. I will be back to order again very soon,
Jim

Jim, this is TOTALLY blog worthy! Any time a customer uses OLM products to improve their way of life, AND save money in the process…we want to know about it.

So….um… (John, look away.) Any chance you could install one of these in my office? How cool would that be!

Hello. I’m a sculptor. I buy at online metals and I saw your postcard when I was picking up some steel today.

I have been sculpting at Pratt Fine Arts Center in Seattle off and on for a couple of years.

It’s hard for me to remember exactly which pieces are made out of OnlineMetals metal. A lot is built out of filler rod. The Owlhead Trillium, attached, and the Humanoid piece featured on the front page of the new site are primarily made from your steel.

Kevin.

Check out Kevin’s work here:

New site:

Old site:

Kevin,
This is really cool! All of the OLMers appreciate fine art, and it means so much more when our materials are amongst the ones used to make a piece.