[TheForge] Re: scrap steel yards

[Roger Olsen]

Andy,

Do you make it to the mainland often?  North of Seattle out by Bothell is a
small community called Clearview.  There is a great scrap yard there called
Whitesides.  They always have a couple if not up to a dozen shop layout tables
out in their yard.  I bought a 4' by 7' that was 1" thick for scrap price,
cannot remember but I think it was something like 38 cents a pound way back
then.  I love it,  I can rivet on it and hammer away pretty much as if it were
a platen table,  which they also had 2 of those.

Also there are three different yards in downtown Seattle,  they are all in that
vicinity just West of Alaska Copper & Brass off of 6th I believe.  There is
also supposed to be a good yard in the Everett area but not sure where, I have
never been there, maybe someone else knows the name and location and will share
it with us.

Roger Olsen
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Dan Tull wrote:

> That sounds WAY too expensive.
>
> My 4X8 X 1/2  NEW was $130
>
> dan tull
> georgia
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> Subject: [TheForge] scrap plate steel
>
> > Is there a way to straighten steel plate?
> >
> > I need to extend a welding table, so went to the local supplier and priced
> > a
> > new 4x5, 1/2". For new steel it's ninety-some cents a pound, about $350...
> > But wait! There's a four by five chunk of 1/2" out back! About $100.
> > Unfortunately it must have had something sitting on it, because it's
> > dished,
> > oh, maybe 3/8. Not that much, but the point is to have a dead flat surface
> > to do layout.
> > If it weren't so thick, I'd just build the frame and plug weld it, force
> > it
> > to be straight, but 1/2" seems too burly.
> > Thanks for any suggestions,
> > Andy g.
> >
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