Looking for 1/8 SS Mandrels

[Curly Irish Girl]

Not having luck finding these....any suggestions??? Also looking for some hollow mandrels - think someone in this forum has them for sale but don't remember who..... :confused:

[BillBrach]

My welding supply place had them, have you checked there ??

[MikeAurelius]

http://www.auralens.net/bs_mandrels.cfm

We haven't made any hollow mandrels or large diameters yet, but it is on the list of things to do.

[Julabula]

Tink sells hollow mandrels.

[bolimasa]

Check these out:
http://www.delphiglass.com/index.cfm?page=itemView&itemsysid=171786&ViewCAT=1726&startRow=1&returnTo=itemList

It doesn't list the diameter, but way back when when I got my first beadmaking kit this is what came with it and they were 1/8th inch mandrels. I assumed that they were the 3/32... but later ordered 3/32 and then realized I'd been using 1/8 all along.
I felt dumb! Perhaps if you call Delphi they could check the measurement for you.

For hollow mandrels I went to the Metals Supermarket:
http://www.metalsupermarkets.com/
They sell small amounts by the foot. I bought a couple of sizes of hollow stainless and they cut them to size for me. I don't think they ended up costing more than $3-4/ mandrel, much less than I've seen the glass suppliers sell them for.

[Curly Irish Girl]

Thanks! I'll check out those sites. I usually get my mandrels from a local welding supply but they don't carry the 1/8.