brianweldor
Cast Iron
- Joined
- Nov 1, 2007
- Location
- WV
Ordered 4 pieces of 6061 pipe recently from a large supplier (rhymes with "PissFin") and the shipping tag said 6061, but the pipe was 6063. Not that big a deal, especially since I was bending the pipe and 6063 bends great, right? About 5° into the bend, it snaps in two. I called my supplier, who called Sisk... I mean their supplier, and their response was "Well that can't be right. Are you sure the lot numbers are the same. Are you sure it's 6063? We don't even stock that". Eventually they realized I wasn't lying and that they effed it up. This was my first experience with bogus material, I wonder what alloy and temper it really was.