Recently in looking for some 100 mm copper or stainless tube I have noticed an alarming tendency to price creep across local plumbing and metal supplies , many wont sell off cuts because they don’t cut yet have off cuts ... and the same dimension and spec tube across various companies vary by hundreds of dollars for a 6m length which is far more than I need. Searching the scrap merchants is atm complicated due to covid and is little help in filling my needs . Also copper reducers ostensibly sized for a job eg 3”to 2”rarely have both ends able to fit the tube I have due to poor fit , often 2” is a problem .
So the question is who has found affordable supplies and reliable sellers of tube parts people , fyi south of Brisbane but courier might be in order
Tia