I expect they can be sold to model engineers, home engineers/lathe work/gunsmiths, as 'barstock'.
Its accurate, tough, sometimes stainless and often there's the same size dia material. I have a few boxes of it, I now include tubing and Ali rod as well.
At $2 a rod you could make a fair bit of money qnd $2 is not much to pay if you actually need it. So you could get more for it.
I'd like somebody to try and sell it on eBay just to see what the results are like.
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