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Materials
With the following exceptions, members are expected to provide their own materials and consumables (including angle grinder wheels).:
- MIG Wire. The fee for using the DMS-provided wire (0.035") in the MIG welders is $1 for every 3 minutes of continuous welding.
- Welding Gas. The gas provided for the welders has no additional cost for members.
- Powder Coating Powder. Members can use the powders in the cabinet at no additional cost.
Vendors
This list is not intended to be comprehensive.
The following vendor lists are not intended to be comprehensive. If you have a favorite vendor that isn't on the list (or have edits/corrections), feel free to add it.
Plasma Table Consumable Vendors
| Vendor | Location | Online Store |
|---|---|---|
| Alvarado, Dallas, Ft. Worth, Grand Prairie, Mesquite | ||
| Coppell, Dallas, Ft. Worth, Garland, Grand Prairie, Lewisville | x |
Powder Coating Vendors
| Vendor | Location | Online Store |
|---|---|---|
| Prismatic Powders | online only | x |
| Powder by the Pound | online only | x |
Metal Vendors
| Vendor | Location | Online Store | Phone | Processing/ Fabrication | Used/Scrap | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Specialty Metals | Arlington | 800-365-1116 | x | Premium steel only. Knife, tool, high speed, powder metallurgy, alloy and stainless steels. Services include cut-to-length, sawing, surface and centerless grinding, gun drilling, boring, and trepanning. | ||
| SA Recycling (Lake June Scrap Metals) | Balch Springs | 972-288-0174 | x | |||
| Busby Metals | Coppell | Specialty metals only & high performance copper-based alloys | ||||
| Ace Iron Metal | 214-631-2256 | x | ||||
| Arbor Metals | Dallas | 800-279-4515 | x | Coils & slitting | ||
| Chicago Stainless | Dallas | 309-351-7462 | Stainless coil, sheet, strip, plate | |||
| Dimco Steel | Dallas | 214-428-8336 | x | |||
| EMJ Metals (Jorgensen Steel) | Dallas | 214-741-1761 | x | |||
| King Metals | Dallas | x | 214-388-9834 | x | Architectural | |
| Mandel Metals | Dallas | 877-752-5052 | Aluminum only (coil, sheet, plate, tread) | |||
| McMurray Metals | Dallas | 214-742-5654 | x | Specialty metals only (hard to find brass, copper and bronze materials when others can not. Lots of drops). | ||
| Metals 4U | Dallas | x | 214-231-1434 | Primarily Aluminum, Steel, Stainless Steel, Brass, Copper | ||
| Quality Metals | Dallas | 971-331-6800 | Primarily roofing | |||
| Southern Metals Co | Dallas | 972-233-0757 | Large wholesale of welder square and rectangular tubing. 1/2 to 16" square from 16 ga. to .625 & rectangle. | |||
| Texas Pipe & Supply | Dallas | 972-423-5296 | Carbon & stainless pipe and fittings | |||
| Thompson-Mathis Metal | Dallas | 214-826-1630 | x | Primarily sheet | ||
| Fulton Metal & Hardware | Denton | 940-898-1423 | x | |||
| Alecom Metal | Euless | 972-438-1032 | x | Primarily Fabrication | ||
| Coremark Metals | Ft. Worth | x | 682-286-9922 | x | x | Pricematching. Sheet in aluminum, stainless, stainless mirrored, copper, mild steel sheet & plate. Remnants section in showroom. |
| J&M Steel Co | Ft. Worth | 817-289-4160 | Steel round and square tubing, plate, sheet, rebar | |||
| JMS Russel Metals (Norton Metals) | Ft. Worth | 817-232-0404 | x | Full line of steel and aluminum | ||
| TW Metals | Ft. Worth | x | 888-558-7818 | x | Worldwide distributor of standard & custom metal pipes, tubes & tubing, rods, bars, extrusion & coi & sheet products. Fittings, hinge pin stock & roll formed shapes. Tubing types include 4130, DOM carbon, drawn or extruded aluminum, commercial & ornamental stainless nickel tubing. Coil & sheet products in aluminum, stainless, nickel & titanium. | |
| WesTex Iron & Metal | Ft. Worth | 817-626-7033 | x | Sample Product Sheet. Scrap metal yard with lots of plate, square and angles, sometimes you can find fire hydrants for your garden. Mostly steel, some aluminum. | ||
| DFW Industrial Metals | Garland | 972-276-2400 | x | Ferrous and non-ferrous metals bought and sold. You can walk the yard and purchase by the pound. | ||
| Garland Steel Inc. | Garland | 972-494-6000 | x | Hot rolled angles, flats, rounds, channels, pipe, tubing, plate, and sheet. Cold rolled flat bar, round, square, and hex. | ||
| Brown Campbell | Garland | x | 800-472-8464 | x | Grating, perf, expanded. | |
| Castle Metals | Grand Prairie | 972-339-5000 | x | |||
| OnlineMetals.com (ThyssenKrupp) |
| Grand Prairie | x | 800-704-2157 | Pricematching | |||
| O'Neal Metals | Grand Prairie | 972-402-7900 | x | Laser, oxy-fuel, plasma cutting. Shearing, sawing, forming. | ||
| Ameritube | Hillsboro | 254-580-9888 | Pipe and tubing | |||
| Rudy & Associates (MTW Metals) | Kennendale | 817-429-6916 | Exotic grades of carbon, stainless, aluminum, alloy, and titanium. Services include bar coding & RFID, OD & ID cleaning, tube re-draw, centerless grinding & ID honing, heat treating, material testing. | |||
| Samuel & Son Co | Irving | 800-441-0797 | x | |||
| Almetco Recycling | Lewisville | 972-221-7442 | x | Good source of copper, bronze, brass | ||
| CDC Surplus Products | Richardson | 972-918-9886 | x | Mechanical surplus: Cut-offs, hard plastics, aluminum, steel, various metals in smaller sizes. Drill bits, mill tooling, hand tools, high strength nuts and bolts. No credit cards accepted. | ||
| Trident Metals | Richardson | 972-231-5176 | x | Carbon and specialty high-performance and corrosion resistant metals including aluminum, stainless, nickel, copper, and other exotics. Lead & ingot, magnesium, molybdenum, tungsten, zinc, silver, tin, tantalum, indium. processing includes boring, honing, turning, cutting, slitting, sheeting, shearing, and saw operations. | ||
| Holloway Co Inc | Saginaw | 800-869-8663 | x | Structural steel rolling, plate rolling, ASME code vessels, shop fabricated tanks and custom plate cutting | ||
| Stephens Pipe & Fencing | Wills Point | 214-348-2400 | Fencing-related metals | |||
| Multiple Locations | ||||||
| Metal Supermarkets | Dallas, Ft. Worth | x | ||||
| Ryerson Inc | Arlington, Carrollton | x | x | |||
| Grainger | Arlington, Carrollton, Dallas, Ft. Worth, Garland, Plano | x | ||||
| Online Only | ||||||
| Midwest Steel Supply | x | Low cost cast aluminum plate | ||||
| Metal by the Foot | x | Also carries patina copper plus taps, dies, and other misc tools | ||||
| Online Metals | x | Large nationwide distributor | ||||
| Speedy Metals | x | No minimum source of cast iron | ||||
