Stainless Round Bar - Grade 303

Stainless Steel Rod – Grade 303 – Free Machining Grade. Order Below Cut To Size.

 

 

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1 x Free Cut - per line item purchased - receive the item at the exact length required for the job

Folding Service

We are able to offer our Aluminium Sheets & Chequer Plates and Stainless Steel Sheets folded to the customers specifications

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Lee Turner
20:54 25 Mar 25
James Christelow
20:23 24 Mar 25
Exactly as ordered, very pleased with purchase and prompt delivery
Barracuda UK
10:11 19 Mar 25
Right price, right delivery, website is great. no issues. Can't ask for any more.
mick sollis
18:26 18 Mar 25
Have used a few times great service and cost will be using again.
V Tazey
17:42 12 Mar 25
I can't fault them. I needed stainless steel rods to create a fram to net over our fish pond. Quickly and safely delivered, just the job, thanks
Ron Vass
09:44 19 Feb 25
Truly excellent service for such a small job!I needed some small rectangular aluminium sheets made up to use as Tiller Hoods to fix the tiller to the rudder for a Mirror Dinghy! The 1mm thick 200mm x 100mm sheets were just £1.07 each excluding vat and as the postage was 3x that amount I decided to order 10 for future projects! 1st Choice Metals provided a superb very cost effective service and cut the sheets with quick delivery.I am truly delighted with them.
Richard Abraham
19:35 18 Feb 25
Easy to navigate website and hassle free purchase. Excellent customer service when item delivered was damaged by delivery service, replaced immediately without fuss. I hope they got compensation from courier.
Adam G
13:49 18 Feb 25
Fast and friendly staff, use them for materials for work and never had a problem with supply. The cutting service is a big help too, I can just order what i need, pick it up and fit, no faffing about.
Lauren Pots
12:00 25 Sep 24
I bought a plate of brass 3mm thick to be used on a drawing board. It was dispatched very quickly and packaged against a wooden board in order that it didn’t get damaged. Brilliant service, thank you.

These are solid cylindrical sections of Bar or Rod, which are produced by one of the following methods of manufacture:

Smaller diameters such as 3mm, 3/16”, 6mm, 10mm, 12mm, 16mm & 20mm are Bright Drawn.

Intermediate sized Stainless Steel Round Bars with diameters such as 25mm, 30mm, 35mm, 40mm, 50mm, 2.1/4”, 2.1/2” & 3” will usually be Smooth Turned, although some sizes are Bright Ground.

Diameters from 3.1/4” and up to 7” dia will normally be Rough Turned.

Stainless Steel Rods are generally stocked in 3 metre long lengths and we cut them down to the size as requested by the buyer. We offer each individual size of Grade 303 & Grade 304 Stainless Steel Bar in a whole host of handy lengths, starting from as little as 15mm long! We then offer you a free cut so that if you need a length of 50mm Dia 304 Stainless Rod that is 585mm Long, you only pay for the nearest length offered (In this case it would be 600mm) and we will cut it back to 585mm at no extra cost – saving you money on what would otherwise be wasted material.

Stainless Steel Round Bars have many great attributes. They are hard, strong, and have excellent anti-corrosive properties.

In many cases, Grades 303 & 304 are interchangeable, however there are slight differences in each of the grades composition which make either of them the obvious choice for certain applications.
Grade 303 aka 1.4305 Stainless Steel Round Bars

Grade 303 is the Free Machining grade of Stainless Steel, making it the perfect choice when the bar either needs to be heavily machined, or when large quantities of items are being machined. Examples of this are machined or turned components for mass produced items such as cars, motor bikes, tools and machines.

This excellent machineability is achieved by the addition of a small amount of Sulphur into the composition of the steel. The down side of this is that Grade 303 contains slightly less Chromium and Nickel when compared to Grade 304, giving it a lower resistance to corrosion and a slight reduction in its toughness.

The Grade 303 Stainless Steel Round Bar is not recommended for Welding – although welding is possible with the correct equipment & working conditions.