junk yard find

[endmill]

my $13.00 find. They shut a local factory down last summer and after the auction this stuff has ended up in the local scrap yard

[BadDog]

Nice, congrats! A few years back I just got the urge to go by a local scrap yard that still let a few folks poke around. Anyway, someone had just dropped off an old CNC machine that was pretty clapped out. But surprise surprise, there was a lot of the tooling there. That's where I got my first Top-Notch insert holder and a few other relatively high dollar bits of tooling. Some of it, including a half dozen WN (trigon negative) holders I didn't really want. I don't use W inserts, preferring to stick to the more commonly available and seemingly less desirable (read often dirt cheap or even free) CN and TN inserts. So I traded those for tooling I wanted. It was a crazy haul for (IIRC) $0.10 a pound, no idea what my final value was on that...

[endmill]

yea we are still lucky to have a scrap/junk yard you can still walk around in.

[steamin10]

Most recycle and 'scrap yards are closed to the public here, due to insurance demands. I have a long history in talking to the workers , and they can sometimes meet my requests. It is always under the cloud of 'NO'. tho.

[BadDog]

Hopefully Harold or Glenn can recombine these threads.

Yeah, I got to walk around for a while after it closed to walk ins because the owner/operator knew me (from my earlier walks). Then he hired a new manager who cut me off.

[Harold_V]

Hopefully Harold or Glenn can recombine these threads.

Done!

H

[WesHowe]

Most recycle and 'scrap yards are closed to the public here, due to insurance demands.

Same here

But! In the a nearby town (20 miles by Texas standards) there is a machine shop that will sell me drops at scrap price. A lot of their business is agriculture-related fabrication (there is a cotton gin next door to it, for example) so I have gotten some nice pieces of plate, shafts of diameter as large as I can manage on a 12" lathe, and so on. Ideal for a low-budget hobbyist.

I don't get there that often since my previous trips piled up metals a lot faster than I can convert them to chips. But this may be something you could look for locally to get some project materials (where tight material specifications are not needed).

- Wes

[liveaboard]

We have a scrapyard here where I can poke around; the trouble is the owner is totally nuts with his pricing; I can buy new steel, delivered, for the same price [in 20' lengths only]; and for "good stuff" he wants even sillier prices.
I sometimes pick up some short pieces of heavy material from him, 2 to 4 inch rod etc.
Maybe I'm getting 'foreigner' prices, but he doesn't seem to sell much.