Can’t find j rail

Thanks Hemet is out I will try the others

Is most all of the j rail the same extrusion? I do aluminum extrusion fabrication for a living and if it got to a point where you just can't find it you could have a die-cut and extrude new j rail but it would take a few orders to make it worth the cost.
Any aluminum extrusion shape can have a new die made so if there was something else out of extrusion that people can't find it is possible to remake the actual extrusion die.

Inch and a quarter for some of these PNW trailers would be great but a single order for myself,yeah not cost effective.Company’s are either out of (wide rail)or very little stock,but since have An eye on pristine rail from soon to scrap Anderson all this Hemit 3/4 take’n up me space🤔

You have several things going on here, lets try to sort them out.

#1 "J" rail, Rain Rail, Drip Rail (all the same item) is not an "extrusion".  No need to make a die to run it.  It's formed from flat aluminum in a roll type machine.  There's no way you are going to make it as cheap as you can buy it.  It runs about a "buck a foot", up to about $25/$30 for a sixteen foot section depending on where you are forced to purchase it.

#2 Awning rail "is extruded" for a example.  It's a completely different way of manufacturing.


#3 Truck Shipping is the issue with this product.  It's hard and expensive to ship a sixteen foot aluminum rail that is so easily damaged.  A dealer/distributor would likely need to order 50 to 100 sixteen foot sections at a time in order to make the freight cost amortize out.

#4 Length, you want to "purchase only, full sticks, of sixteen feet", because it's lots easier to shape smooth bends when you eliminate the joints.  You need three sticks to do a small canned ham when reusing the awning rail.

#5 UPS and FedEx will only ship 94", to 96" maximum length items, so internet vendors cut your perfectly good sixteen footer in half ruining your piece.  They compound the problem by requiring you to purchase $$ a separate plastic shipping tube.

#6 As a customer, you have very little clout when you need only three sticks, but your dealer needs to place an order for 100 sticks to get his freight costs per stick into a reasonable amount.

#7 The current supply of all kinds of products currently is very poor due to manufacturing cutbacks.  For example, paint manufacturer's cannot supply the paint demand due to shortages of raw materials and shortage of paint cans.

John