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| Bluechip:
--- Quote from: Bigbadbugga on June 10, 2014, 08:52:38 AM --- Ok, my local steel supplier just quoted me £80 +vat for a 300mm length of 100mm square mild steel. Is this expensive? Seems like it to me :( --- End quote --- As steel is more or less priced by weight .... ? 100mm Sq. will be about 4x the 2" Sq. price. http://www.livesteammodels.co.uk/suppliescat.html Live Steam price 2" Sq. at £44.50 / metre. which gives an equivalent of £178 / metre for 4" Sq. or about £60 for 333mm Ex VAT prices .. So, on that basis, as LSM are to all intents and purposes a retailer rather than a stockholder, your supplier seems a bit on the heavy side ... Dave . |
| AdeV:
I usually get my stuff from either Mersey Metals (who are now on my side of the river instead of yours...), or a local scrappy. McCoys in New Ferry is often good for big chunks of steel, I think they get a lot in from Cammell Laird given their proximity to the latter. Try Mersey Metals - they should deliver out to St Helens, I know they deliver to South Warrington - 0151 650 1600 The other place to look is eBay, look specifically for offcuts. I got a huge disc of aluminium (900mm diameter, 3 inch thick) for around £200 delivered, that was well under half the price for new metal. |
| Bigbadbugga:
Thanks guys, just found a place in bootle who quoted me £40 all in for the same piece (cash sale). looks like a good place too so I'll take a trip down in the morning and see how 'amateur friendly' they are. http://www.scimitarsteels.co.uk/index.html |
| BaronJ:
--- Quote from: Bigbadbugga on June 10, 2014, 08:52:38 AM --- Ok, my local steel supplier just quoted me £80 +vat for a 300mm length of 100mm square mild steel. Is this expensive? Seems like it to me :( --- End quote --- Sounds expensive to me as well ! I get most of my materials from the local scrapyard. I find that the bloke at the scrapyard will put stuff on one side if you let him know what it is you want. In any case he will make more money out of you than he would get from the people he sells to. The big chunk of steel that I got for my QCTP, approx 4" cube cost me the princely sum of £4 and the 6" length of 30 mm hex brass bar £10. There are a couple of engineering works that I visit now and again. Sometimes depending upon what I am looking for, particularly if it comes out of the scrap pile, its a case of "put a quid in the tea box". I've even been loaned tools when I've got stuck. Mind you a bit of back scratching helps. |
| AdeV:
--- Quote from: Bigbadbugga on June 10, 2014, 09:57:00 AM ---Thanks guys, just found a place in bootle who quoted me £40 all in for the same piece (cash sale). looks like a good place too so I'll take a trip down in the morning and see how 'amateur friendly' they are. http://www.scimitarsteels.co.uk/index.html --- End quote --- If you want tube, there's a place on Brasenose street (just around the corner from Scimitar) called Majestic Engineering, they have steel tube of all types/sizes in stock. Can't remember their number, the entrance is on St John's Road off Brasenose St, IIRC. |
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