Is stainless sheet desirable?

[Aukai]

Cut up the pieces that fit in the 24" USPS box and lets start shipping. Serious....

 

[Janderso]

Just to give you a sense of how much effort you should put into this:

Stainless is a hot commodity right now. Major, major shortages. Prices are 3-4x what they were four months ago. Fabricators are making spot buys on large quantities often times 10x what they normally buy - no questions asked.

Scrappers are likely buying that scrap that you spotted at about $0.25/lb for 400 series and $0.60/lb for 300 series. These are NE US prices at least in our area. Your results may vary. Don't expect them to let you walk away with it for free - but you never know unless you ask.

If you can get some nice pieces for free - do it. Your chances of getting the same thing 3 months from now and out will drop off dramatically as time passes.

I should run over to my metals place. Take a look at the SS scrap pile. It's usually $.60 a #

 

[Larry$]

I get mostly aluminum from a sign shop. Structural shapes and sheet. Some new some from removed signs. Also get round and rectangular scrap from a large machine shop, never big pieces but 3 to 6" long. An auto repair shop saves cast aluminum parts for me to melt for casting. Storage space becomes a problem.

 

[Cadillac]

Yup, I've done many a project from the hoard of stainless I salvaged out of a commercial kitchen tear-out years ago. I love to weld that stuff.

Welding could be alittle tricky. Ask my friend whats the best parameters for welding this hitch setup. Lap joint 3/8 material to 1/4 angle for where it mounts to car. Tells me around 125 mat need to back off to avoid warping and cooking the weld.
Get all setup, feeling good lay some beads get the side plates welding. Take a picture send to him. His response was hey I’ll be back in town Monday I’ll swing by and lay some beads over that and clean it up.
Well I guess someone who does it all day everyday my welds look like boogers. My concern was he said don’t cook it which I did alittle. First pic is my weld I sent to him. The rest are his pretty awesome watching, learned more in one hour than years of self teaching. Sorry for the derail

 

[pontiac428]

Your welds would have held, your friend didn't have to rub your nose in it! His heat control is excellent. When you try to get too much done, the weld gets black and porous, and may grow "christmas trees" when you move the shielding gas away from the still hot joint. I found out that overheated stainless welds don't hold water (or fuel) very well because of that. All part of learning.

 

[mmcmdl]

Cut up the pieces that fit in the 24" USPS box and lets start shipping. Serious....

I sold my saws Mike or you would already have that 304 block . I have a ton of smaller things here though still hidden wherever they fit . Alum , brass , stainless .

 

[Aukai]

Whatever fits, you can ship....as you find it

 

[mmcmdl]

Yes , that is the facts Jack !

 

[mmcmdl]

You'll get pics before anyone else btw .

 

[MERLIncMan]

I sold my saws Mike or you would already have that 304 block . I have a ton of smaller things here though still hidden wherever they fit . Alum , brass , stainless .

If you're shipping scrapies to scrapies...

Didn't see why I oughtn't try