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raynerd:
On this topic, I`ve found myself driving around looking for scrap yards, I`ve been doing it for the last 6 months and on the way home from work a few weeks ago I took a "TomTom" detour due to traffic. Anyway, started going down this back street an saw one advertising "Workshop clearances" so popped in, they had buckets full of bar stock brass and I thought I was well away. Picked up a load of the stuff and then weighed it.... £4 per KG he was charging! Ouch - that is better than hobby suppliers but no-where near as good as the £1.50 I pay elsewhere. That being said, the cheaper scrappy has dried up of brass for the last month.

I was suited up at the time from work so I wondered if he was trying to squeeze a few more quid but I`ve since been back and spoke to another bloke who charged the same. I`ve been buying some bits I`ve needed but I`m just gutted it isn`t a little cheaper.

Can you barter at these places and what would be a "good" buying price for brass at present. I may have a go and buy a stock of it.

Chris

Darren:
You can always barter,

Some of us make a living out of it ..... :thumbup:

I would expect them to expect you to barter....

raynerd:
Ooops .. :wack:

I will be sure to mention the scrappy about 3 miles away that sells brass for £1.50 a KG.... so I`d be happy to meet a £2. I doubt they`ll go for half price. I need more confidence with that sort of thing....I hate bartering!

Darren:
Leave the suit at home, go scruffy, not clean scruffy though :thumbup:

John Stevenson:
You can't barter round here, they throw you out the yard.
Having said that I have found once you get known it's swings and roundabouts, called in one bay and he had this very nice universal vise mounted on a 4" or so ball, can tilt at any angle and swivel as well. I thought about £40 he wanted £60, so I just paid up and took it home, still worth £60 but would have been better at £40 :clap:

Later went round and he had a pristine 10" rotary table on the floor, me thinks £70 to £80 and he wanted £20, again paid up and left.

I was there one day and he had this CVA lathe in with all the attachments but a guy was buying it, I was gutted, he wanted £950 for it delivered. Stood there to one side dejected and then this guy said the magic words "I'll give you £850 for it "

Mentally punched the air as I knew it was mine before the guy got the bums rush out the gate. When he's gone I said I'll give you £950 for it Malc. He replied you can have it for £900, I'll deliver it tomorrow drop the money in when you have it.

I have had some real good deals of these guys and never, ever queried a price, if I think it's high I just pay, knowing it will pay back spades.

One day he said look at these , you like these don't you and produced a shoe box with about 25 dial gauges, some with expired dates on stickers, some sticking, some with no glass, most OK. I asked how much, he weighed the box in his hand, said don't weigh anything you cam have them and gave me the box.

John S.

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