New shop started

[dragoneggs]

No plans just hitting up the scrapyard for “treasures”
Price was close to 100$ so around .30?

I miss the old days when scrap metal was pretty much given away. Now too many are wise to the value because too many are wise enough to repurpose. Oh well.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Salvage yards are paying only about $.03-.05/lb for steel. So selling it to you at .30 is ten fold markup.


Price of titanium 6Al4V varies from $27 to $35 per pound depending on what/how much you buy.

Scrap titanium (chips and shavings) is not worth much at all. Not sure why.

 

[plastikosmd]

I understand the markup I sell scrap also.
I don’t fault them, still a good price, pricing mild steel at 3.5”x24” I would have paid close to 100$ without shipping (per piece)
All together it would have been 480$ plus shipping on 300#

 

[plastikosmd]

Time to start installing the 3 point hitch subframe

Another old pic for the quadractor fans

 

[MickeyDBC]

Salvage yards are paying only about $.03-.05/lb for steel. So selling it to you at .30 is ten fold markup.


Price of titanium 6Al4V varies from $27 to $35 per pound depending on what/how much you buy.

Scrap titanium (chips and shavings) is not worth much at all. Not sure why.

Aluminum 6061 is running about $2.15 a pound and we are getting $.15 a pound on chips right now. Steel chips are worth zero - they will take them if you deliver them but they will not pickup. I won't even run steel jobs now due to waste.

 

[plastikosmd]

Started back on this old 22LR 1919 conversion project. I had some pierced primers. Before shortening the spring a bit I considered whether the 22 cartridge was really seated into the 30 caliber “dummy” round. I seated them gently with a press to ensure they sat against the shoulder. There was some “stickiness” in the last 1/16” that makes it hard to seat with thumb pressure. No piercing. I will have to take the dummy rounds and make sure that they are fully cleaned up any cosmoline that is possibly causing the interference.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Now that looks fun.

 

[plastikosmd]

It is a hoot!
A lot cheaper to feed than 308 (mine is 308 not 30-06)

 

[EddieWalker]

Love this!!! I've been over thinking how to organize my ever growing collection of fishing poles, and this is so simple!!! Thanks for posting the picture.

 

[rangerfredbob]

A friend of mine did similar but mounted them to the rafters, instead of conduit clamps he drilled a 1/2" hole in one side and a smaller hole in the other and just used a single screw into the rafter, I think he has another a few boards down for the other end of the pole to take the strain off. Once I get my shop built, I'm definitely doing something either on a wall or ceiling to hold poles... but I need to pare my collection down...