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Most common steel grades are offered in standard gage thicknesses and tolerances. These sizes are usually readily available as stock items and are generally the best choice when cost and delivery are a major factor. Rolling mills work from master coils, and so usually have minimum order quantities, somewhere in the truckload range. If the material required to produce a metal stamping order is much less than this quantity, a steel warehouse can search its inventory to find material that might happen to fall within the specified tolerance, but this makes availability a variable from order to order.
Custom material can be purchased from companies that specialize in re-rolling smaller quantities, but the cost can increase exponentially.