WHERE can i get C-Channel Beam for stainless steel/ aluminium dimension PLEASE

Hi All,
1. Can someone please send me or tell me where i can get C channel Beam dimensions for stainless steel or aluminum.

2. Am using solidworks but i can not find the c-channel like this pic.
Am designing a base that slides In and Out with bearing in the c - channel..any advise on calculation will help as well.

Thanks you all

 

You don not give any indication of size, for alum. see
http://www.capalex.co.uk/standards/lipped_channels.html

For stainless steel it might be an option to have it folded, depending on length and quantity.

 

It's not a standard shape, though somebody might make and sell it for a special application. You don't give any dimensions so it's impossible to say.

If you need enough of it, a custom aluminum extrusion is certainly possible and quite affordable. Generally the minimum order is around 1000 lbs. of product. Or you might be able to find the appropriate size rectangular tube and cut out one side of it to get your shape.

Or perhaps you'll get lucky and these mounting channels (specific dimensional linformation here) will do.

 

Hi Dana,

Thanks Will have look at that website. I didn't know that was not a standard [c channel)

 

Industry standard C-channels have only three sides.

 

Perhaps the Halfen or UniStrut products may be suitable. Their products are available in various materials including stainless steel.

 

Not sure aluminum channel is the right material choice if there is a bearing running inside the channel...

But, McMaster-Carr handles these two shapes in steel (various coatings), Aluminum and Stainless.



I'm sure you can find other sources and other shapes that would get the job done.