My Admiral Steel 13C26 order just came and all my bars are bent and warped.

[Los Angeles]

One bar I've tried to bend back by hand and ended up making matters worse by making it "wavy". I took one of the more gently curved bars and I have it pretty much straight, but when I bow it back and forth, it clearly has a memory and wants to bend back to the position that I received it in.

Now I'm going to see if I can try and rig up my rolling mill with a third external bar or wheel in order to turn it into a makeshift slip roll. If I can slip roll it so that it doesn't favor one side or the other, I think I can use it. And here I thought I would spend my day profiling.

One thing I've learned in my years of working in light metals, when doing something new, it always takes 3 times longer than you think it should.

 

[Dixieblade57]

Whoa. Take it easy, partner.QUOTE]

Touche!
Hey I have been sick with the flu for two weeks, and I hadn't had my first cup of coffee when I read this. So sorry if I didn't read through as well as I should have.
Honestly I have had good luck in the past with Admiral. I would hope there customer service will do you right. It's like I said in this day and time customer service is key. If you don't do your customer right when they have got a problem, you won't be in bussines very long!!!!!! I would tell them of your plight and that bent material is just not exceptable!

 

[wnease]

By all means contact them. Give them a chance to resolve this and then if they don't do you right!!!
Then get on here and open up a can of trash and bash, because that is exactly what these kind of threads end up being.
Most that respond to a thread like this have never even bought from Admiral it's just somthing they heard in another thread like this. I have bought from Admiral and my steel was shipped in a very heavy cardbord tubes and was always pristene.
In this day and time a company that won't honor a shipment won't last till next Tue. This company has been around for a while. If there is a problem pick up the phone and call them!

Yeah I got sort of straight steel in my cardboard tube, just the wrong alloy, and my colleague A.D. ordered 5160 which would not harden in commercial heat treat because it was not 5160, a mistake which cost him substantial embarassment. I ordered L6, they sent 8670m, heat treat completely different, said L6 on the shipping slip, cost me sales at show, cost me a chem analysis, cost me the price of the steel which I didn't want, they would not respond to e-mail or written mail, tell me they don't suck...