Bought a bit of Ali bar today!

[MattH]

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[Parm]

Yep, the cash came out of my wallet fast before they had a chance to change their minds.

I love having a local scrap merchant that deals with engineering firms.
Charges me £1 per kilo for Ali.

You got that from a scrap merchant ??? I need to find a better scrap merchant

 

[MattH]

Yep, they have contracts with loads of local engineering firms. The yard is clean and all the metals are sorted into bins.
Stainless, mild, Titanium, HSS, brass, Iconal, Crome, Ali etc etc.

I love it.

 

[Tinbasherdan]

I once had to cut a brand new piece of 6ftx10ftx100mm thick Ali billet up with a 9" grinder and forklift it into the skip after a planner ordered the wrong stuff and they couldn't get it in the VMC . They'd stopped the scrap not the week before so I couldn't even get it for myself. I think we worked it out to have cost somewhere in the region of 7k, and it went straight in the bin

 

[MattH]

I once had to cut a brand new piece of 6ftx10ftx100mm thick Ali billet up with a 9" grinder and forklift it into the skip after a planner ordered the wrong stuff and they couldn't get it in the VMC . They'd stopped the scrap not the week before so I couldn't even get it for myself. I think we worked it out to have cost somewhere in the region of 7k, and it went straight in the bin

Holy carp!

 

[Wallace]

Weren't the original Airbus wing spars and ribs done from a one piece billet?

 

[kcchan]

Matt, would you be willing to divulge who the company is? Or do you get a good price because you know them?

 

[MattH]

I'd rather not put it up on a public forum but if you PM me i'll happily pass the details on.
Don't know how much good it will do you in Kent though.

 

[kcchan]

I did think you might prefer to do that. I'm actually in Bristol, I haven't updated my profile. I picked up one of your surface tables from you.

 

[MattH]

I did think you might prefer to do that. I'm actually in Bristol, I haven't updated my profile. I picked up one of your surface tables from you.

Lol, so you did. Sorry King, forgot your forum name.
PM'd.

 

[ukracer]

Yep, the cash came out of my wallet fast before they had a chance to change their minds.

I love having a local scrap merchant that deals with engineering firms.
Charges me £1 per kilo for Ali.

I thought you might have got it from there...lol

 

[ukracer]

Yep, they have contracts with loads of local engineering firms. The yard is clean and all the metals are sorted into bins.
Stainless, mild, Titanium, HSS, brass, Iconal, Crome, Ali etc etc.

I love it.

And me...lol

 

[Wendelspanswick]

We used to have one of the Parker Hannifin sites as customers and I was allowed to raid their scrap skips within reason as the site manager knew I tinkered with engineering projects.
I have a dwindling stock of large aluminium bar ends in various sizes but as we don't do any work for them now my supply has dried up.

 

[Shox Dr]

I've a mate who delivers into one of the Aluminium smelters around Manchester. When he can, he comes home with 'snap tin' sized lumps.
Said He's seen slabs the size of armchairs in the pile, with only corners cut off them

 

[Wendelspanswick]

The biggest I have are 10x10x14", they used to use 10x10x16" to machine hydraulic manifold blocks for JCB/CAT? and the end of each bar was always 2" too short!
The smaller sizes make excellent riser/packer blocks on the flypress.

 

[MattH]

Is it wrong that big pieces of metal get me excited?

 

[Wendelspanswick]

Is it wrong that big pieces of metal get me excited?

Depends on how you mean by excited???

 

[Robotstar5]

We were looking forward to weighing in a surplus 2m x 1m x 30mm Al plate for the "xmas fund" but our engineer sold to a local engineering company