Billet prices

[Mr Fro]

After surfing the internet for some alooominum off-cuts, I've decided to jack in the science game and get in to the "rip the **** out of billet prices" lark. I can buy 4m of 2" solid bar for ~£68 from a pukka metal supplier however, if I want to buy say 250mm from a billet supplier, it'll cost me ~£21. That works out at £336 for 4m - 5x the original price!

Don't suppose anyone from the Bury st Edmunds/Cambridge area wants to split a few lengths of solid bar do they? I'm easy on sizes although 6 1/2" is my max at the mo. Don't mind round or square.

 

[hotrodder]

It's gonna vary with supplier but both of my local stockholders will cut whatever you want once the dia is over 3" IIRC, not bought any larger dia bar for a good while so prices will be well out of date but Aalco were happy cut me a couple of 50mm slices of 6" 6082 for something like £6 ea + the VAT
On the offchance you haven't already found them Aluminium warehouse offer cut lengths from a smaller dia than that as well as cut to order stuff. As dia goes up they offer it in shorter and shorter chunks. Not bought anything from them for a while but sometimes they're pretty competitve on tube and solid bar and don't charge much of a premium for shorter lengths. Carriage usually kills things over local sources unless it's a big order though