Anyone able to find plastic coated 1/8" screen?

[Waylon KatDaddy]

I did a search, but the threads I found were very old - hoping someone might have recently found a source...
I found reasonably priced rolls of 1/8" on eBay - galvanized steel, IIRC - definitely not plastic coated. I'm liking the strength & durability of the 1/8" stuff over regular window screen, in case a cat accidentally gets into the reptile room or bedroom, or if we decide to try putting the chams outside when the weather is nice. But I'm worried it would be hard on their toes.
HD & Lowes have "charcoal" aluminum window screen, and black can be ordered - but no info about what they put on it to color it, so I'm thinking it's some kind of paint. May be softer on the toes, but... we have a glass aquarium with a top that looks like the same kind of screen, and the black is coming off in places, so I'm worried they might ingest it.

 

[Waylon KatDaddy]

...chams are a wild caught pair of furcifur oustaleti & a bred pair of jacksonii xantholophus. Planning on a 48x24x48" wood frame screen enclosure for each. May first try keeping them in pairs, since the guy we got the Jackson's from said they'd been together their whole lives, and the Bartlett Chameleon book says that oustalets are usually found in pairs in the wild

 

[JacksJill]

The smallest PVC coated wire mesh I've found was 1/4 inch. Found it at Grainger Industrial Supply.
https://www.grainger.com/product/DI...nger%2F38MH33_AS01%3F%24smthumb%24&s_pp=false

 

[Waylon KatDaddy]

Thanks - been a fan of Grainger for many years!
1/4" might work for the oustalets if I use really big crickets, but I'm thinking the smaller crickets the Jacksons eat would get out - they're currently about 3.5 to 4" body length, oustalets are about 6-7"

 

[Waylon KatDaddy]

Eeks! - that roll is almost 1/4 mile long!

 

[JacksJill]

At least you know it exists. Hopeful someone has it in shorter rolls. I was looking for something for outdoor cages. I don't need a quarter mile either.

 

[Waylon KatDaddy]

I FOUND IT!!!

McMaster-Carr has it, but it comes in sheets, not rolls... and the biggest size is 36x48", and it's not cheap.
Screen for the sides of a 48x24x36" cage would cost about $190 plus shipping, and I would still need something else for the top & floor.

https://www.mcmaster.com/#wire-cloth/=16diiv3

 

[Waylon KatDaddy]

I should clarify, it's exoxy-coated screen, not plastic-coated.