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JimM:
Hi all

I'm going to have a phone round my local scrappies and small engineering firms to try and find a source of offcuts etc.  If I do win the lottery and find somewhere that is willing to help out any idea of what the current prices are for brass and ali.  I'm not expecting to get best prices, especially as it's my first contact etc but would be good to know what sort of wriggle room there might be once I've built up a relationship

Cheers

Jim

one_rod:
Prices for cash sales in the scrapyard are generally based on the "what the punter is daft enough to pay" scale. And if you really do go in and buy one short-end of 25mm brass bar, the transaction will attract the inevitable Nuisance Charge.

Buy as much as you can sensibly afford on each visit and always haggle. Never accept the first price. There will normally be quite a bit of room for negotiation. Remember though, that guy may have a dirty face and dress like a flood victim, but he's probably the shrewdest business man you will ever meet. Haggling with someone like that is not always easy, but just because he's the only scrappy in the area who will even talk to you doesn't mean you have to get your leg lifted.

Unless you are buying enough to need the weighbridge, or want a receipt, then the money from these sales generally goes straight into his back pocket anyway. As long as he's getting more for the metal than he paid for it, he'll be happy.

Good luck.




one_rod.

Darren:
It's funny you should say that Rod,

Today I came away with enough 3/4" plate to make my car slouch, and it's a big-ish car. A bit of brass thrown in too. Scrappy wanted nothing for it and I had to persuade him to take a payment.
The convincing words were "take something otherwise you're gonna think I'm a right pain after the next few times I show up"
So he got enough to wet his lips this eve .....   :ddb:

Darren:
Finally got around to taking a pic  :) The thicker plates are 20mm-3/4" thick,
In front is some brass bar, one length bent up and a heavy brass casting that should be good for something.

Now he knows I'm after heavier stuff he promised to keep it to one side .... we shall see ... fingers crossed.

jatt:
My sheet metal guy is the same.  Virtually have to make him take a few bucks every so often.  Now that I have rigged up a small, simple bender I dont have to harass him to do small jobs for me quite as often.

Get heaps of offcuts from the dump bin behaind the guilotine.  This thing can cut up to 10 mm plate, so there's always some goodies there in various guages.

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