Stealing steel

["Graydon D. Stuckey" <graydon@apollo.gmi.edu>]

On Wed, 26 Mar 1997 STEADIRIC@aol.com wrote:

> 6AL Ti is going for about $27.50 a pound. Stainless Steel is around 
> $21/Lbs, Steel is around $19/Lbs and Al is around $12.50/lbs.  So you are 
> only paying around 44% more for 6AL Ti than Carbon Steel. 
Eric,

	I don't understand why your prices are this high.  I pay 30 
cents/pound for steel at my local steel yard.   If I buy in any quantity, 
he'll go down to 15 cents/pound.   This is for square tubing, round 
tubing, flat stock, etc.   He charges 1.50/pound for aluminum.   The 
catch is that the material is cutoffs from his big steel shops (ALRO 
Steel) but, you can always find long pieces (8-10feet) of any size you 
want.   I can't imagine that the uncut material would be alot more, and I 
certainly cant believe that steel ingots would be more since they are 
virtually unprocessed.

Later,
Graydon D. Stuckey 
'86 5KCSTQ, GDS Racing 3" exhaust