Where to buy busbar material

[ericfx1984]

Hey y'all... I hope everybody's having a great day. Where do I go to get busbar material... I don't want to get junk but I don't want to be broke either

Thanks in advance everyone

 

[ricardocello]

Depends where you are located.

I use McMaster-Carr because they have actual specifications for the materials.
Not necessarily the cheapest though. But it gets to my house in two days.

McMaster-Carr

McMaster-Carr is the complete source for your plant with over 595,000 products. 98% of products ordered ship from stock and deliver same or next day.

www.mcmaster.com

 

[Q-Dog]

I bought some from here, but there are others.

Copper 110 Flat BUSS Bar Stock - YOU CHOOSE THE SIZE- 1/8", 1/4",3/8", 3/16" | eBay

110 Copper flat bar has a tensile strength range of 10-32 KSI, and conforms to ASTM B187.

www.ebay.com

 

[hwy17]

I used 6101 aluminum from mcmaster carr. Cheap, easy to cut, and easy to drill.

 

[hugemoth]

eBay

Copper 110 Flat BUSS Bar Stock - YOU CHOOSE THE SIZE- 1/8", 1/4",3/8", 3/16" | eBay

110 Copper flat bar has a tensile strength range of 10-32 KSI, and conforms to ASTM B187.

www.ebay.com

 

[Dagoth Ur Does Solar]

Depends where you are located.

I use McMaster-Carr because they have actual specifications for the materials.
Not necessarily the cheapest though. But it gets to my house in two days.

McMaster-Carr

McMaster-Carr is the complete source for your plant with over 595,000 products. 98% of products ordered ship from stock and deliver same or next day.

www.mcmaster.com

Man I hope for their non-automotive materials they have better documentation on their website.

As far as ordering, getting the products, and the quality, I agree. McMaster-Carr seems to be the go-to for automotive guys who need specific replacement hardware that isn't available elsewhere.

Spoiler: Me ranting about McMaster-Carr

Maybe I am just dumb and missed something obvious, but I had to place an order for a huge swathe of constant-tension spring clips to re-do all the cooling/vaccum/etc hoses in my project car. I measured them out in mm since it's a foreign car, realized McMaster-Carr's website listed all of the clamp diameters in SAE only.

I spend half an hour going over my huge laundry list of hose diameters (ended up with about 15 different sizes of clamps) and converting them to SAE, and trying to find the closest-possible size to match.

When get the dang clamps, they are literally all marked only in metric! Maybe I'm just dumb and don't understand how these are normally sold.

In their defense though, I had enough of the correct size clamps based off my conversions to get the car back together.

 

[ricardocello]

Man I hope for their non-automotive materials they have better documentation on their website.

McMaster has a complete collection of stock across lots of disciplines, sometimes even hard-to-find stuff.
For quick fasteners and general mechanical engineering stock, they are hard to beat on convenience.
Sometimes their prices are great, sometimes shockingly high.

It has always been a great place to browse for hours, you can learn a lot just by seeing what's available out there.

 

[42OhmsPA]

I'd check Zoro as well.

Copper Bar Stock - Copper - Raw Materials | Zoro

Shop for Copper Bar Stock on Zoro.com. With 1000s of brands and millions of products, you're sure to find what you need.

www.zoro.com