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raynerd:
loppy, Yes, it is!!!! I picked up two pieces of about 3" dia x 12" length, must be well well over 25kg and I paid about £3 for two pieces! He doesn`t even bother weighing the steel, just looks at it and gives me a prices. But the brass.....that gets weighed for sure!!!

philf:

--- Quote from: craynerd on October 06, 2011, 04:57:39 PM ---loppy, Yes, it is!!!! I picked up two pieces of about 3" dia x 12" length, must be well well over 25kg and I paid about £3 for two pieces! He doesn`t even bother weighing the steel, just looks at it and gives me a prices. But the brass.....that gets weighed for sure!!!

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Hi Chris,

Where is your steel supplier?

I need some sizeable lumps for my CNC conversion.

Before I retired, free lumps of steel were no problem. Along with my lunchtime sorties to the waste skip armed with pocket fulls of spanners, screwdrivers and allen keys, it's one of the few things I miss about work. (When I retired I was presented with a miniature, polished brass skip in recognition of 38 years of dedicated skip-diving!)

I'm enjoying watching your progress on the clock - well done.

Cheers.

Phil.

raynerd:
Hi Phil, no sign of the cross slide bits yet?

Send me an email and I`ll let you know. It isn`t a "supplier" just a scrap yard. Some days he has loads in and others not so much...but very cheap for steel.

Chris

mechman48:

Hi all

My two 'pennorth; went to a few scrappies last week looking for CI, brass, ally, to stock up on materials but most of them 'round here are car breakers & put the stuff through the pulverisor/shredder so not a lot of joy. Asked the question at one & the foreman said try so & so's, they tend to do recycling.
Called in to so & so's and asked the supervisor the question; they didn't have much in the way of Alum' bar stock only tons of window frame sections,not much in the CI dept either apart from huge industrial cast valves etc, too big for my needs, anyhow rummaging through the brass pile, mostly plumbing fittings & the like, I struck it lucky & came across a few bits of square bar, flat bar small dia. round bar & small flats . After picking the best pieces I had them weighed up.. 16.2 kilos! cost me £50..so that worked out to £3.09p per kilo, obviously no test certs etc but for that price I aint complaining

Did some talking with him & discovered he was into model making albeit in plastic kit form & was presently making a Tiger tank so he said he would keep his eyes open for more, & for ally & CI, & would put it off to one side for me so if I can call by at the end of the month he may have some decent bits for me..it pays to talk..hmm, where have I heard that before so possibly a future supplier for general non critical stuff ..here's hoping
Have att pic.
Cheers
George.

ps, todays prices seem to be about £4 per kilo, but still lower than retail.

Winklmj.. who's your scrappie? definately somthing amiss there :loco: ..lucky you.

winklmj:
I've been using two lately. The one huge place--they buy up all the stuff from the smaller scrappers. It still varies from $1.00 to $1.50 for aluminum and usually $0.25 for steel/iron. Problem now is they've done away with one of their aluminum bins--they used to separate the really clean/solid aluminum into it--but now it all gets dumped into the huge piles with everything else. Makes digging around a bit harder but still very worth the effort.

I've found a smaller place as well, they get lots of odds and ends and they don't have a shredder--so anything they get equipment-wise is usually reusable. I'm still amazed at what some people throw out. I picked up 50lbs of aluminum and stainless today--$1.00 a pound.

FYI, I did go back for that piece of stressproof. Damn thing was so heavy it's all I could carry--$25.00. :)

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