What are ya'll paying per pound for drops?

[700R]

I finally got 200A service run out to my garage, and have my first side job lined up. The local steel place doesn't cater to the little guy anymore, so I found a small shop that lets people buy their drops for $0.50/lb. How's that sound? What are ya'll average Joe's just tinkering in the garage paying?

[MikeGyver]

It's like 70 or 80 cents here unless you buy over 100 lbs then it's like 10 cents cheaper. Good selection of very usable material though (not usually random drop).

[chimmike]

steel is about .60-.65 for me, ss is around 2.50-3 as is aluminum, for drop.

[fredschrom]

My metal supplier has a rem shelf, its .50 a pound for steel, $1.00 a pound on stainless. The sheet stock is the best deal, anything under 2x4 hits the rem rack, occasionally slightly bigger than that but 3x4 and bigger is NOT rem.

Never anything long though in regular stock. The best buy I got from them was 14" pipe, it was laying around eating up space and they let me have it for .20 as they wanted it gone.

[anickode]

Steel is .89 per pound on drops at ALRO here... Quite outrageous IMO.

[citizen smith]

belson steel center in Bradley Illinois has a salvage yard FULL of good useable steel. full length,half length, plate you name it, steel there at the beginning of the year salvage price was like .52 or .53 I bought essentially new 3" channel iron 20 footers from them at that price. just alittle more surface rust than "new"

[Lanse]

.53 here in SW Ohio, pretty good actually. A lot of things are rusty as hell tho, and most of the stuff that isnt, is small.

[soutthpaw]

If Drops are the same as Rems, then I get them between 35 and 45 cents a lb at one of the local metal recyclers. he usually has a great selection though its mostly big heavy stuff. lots of 12" and larger I beam and channel etc. He tends to buy up entire metal supply shops when they go out of business. several of which have locally the last few years.

[Bruce Avison]

What is "rems"? as in full definition/word? I buy drops for all over the map, haven't checked lately, but I got a wack of 3/16" plate in oddball sizes (like 23.5"x40", or 48") for .12/lb - but scrap price is only $120/ton prepared. He was super happy with my price, mostly because it was cash. That, and it's not like 1400 lbs out of the bin would make much of a dent., so scrap guys couldn't complain about contracts, etc.

Bruce

[flatbustedbroke]

Rems=remnants Ball park around .55/lb some places a little more some a little less. Scrap is often close to free. Scrap would be coupon sizes or triangles that they don't see as having a use.

[Jimmy_pop]

Industrial metal supply in Phx has 5-8' sections of .25 wall tube and rectangle for .25 pp.

[Fegenbush]

I think our average is $0.55/lb delivered. That might be a little misleading since we buy a lot.

[imc188222]

Originally Posted by Bruce Avison

scrap price is only $120/ton prepared.

Not sure where you are located but prepared is paying $220/ton here. Just throwing that in there cause I know it can be hard to find out what scrap is really paying.

[bigb]

I pay .35 for drops, remnants, used, and sometimes they even have uncut sheet and plate, all .35 lb. They pay .06 and sell to the public for .35, Tucson Iron & Metal. The only steel that goes higher is full length tubing which goes by the foot..

[Bruce Avison]

Originally Posted by imc188222

Not sure where you are located but prepared is paying $220/ton here. Just throwing that in there cause I know it can be hard to find out what scrap is really paying.

I'm in north/central Alberta - scrap is so low more than likely because Vancouver is the closest port, and I'm assuming because smelting capacity is so limited here, that we send it all to China.

Bruce

[shocwav3]

.30-.40/pound on rem for me.

[Oldendum]

There's a fab shop in Richmond, VA that sells what they are scrapping for .30/lb. Haven't been by there to see what is available.

[shocwav3]

Originally Posted by Oldendum

There's a fab shop in Richmond, VA that sells what they are scrapping for .30/lb. Haven't been by there to see what is available.

Probably worth the drive for me if they have some clean drops, whats the name? I would call 'em before I headed up to see what they had. Thanks

[CamW]

One of the metal yards near me gets .55/lb for flat and angle, .65 for tube and 2.50 for aluminum.

[Oldendum]

Originally Posted by shocwav3

Probably worth the drive for me if they have some clean drops, whats the name? I would call 'em before I headed up to see what they had. Thanks

Oilfield Pipe & Supply, Inc.
Glen Allen, VA

The fellow I contacted is Chase 804-382-2858

Couple of pictures here: http://richmond.craigslist.org/mad/3014183875.html Looks like more plate and strap than structural, but you never know. I think he said they also had some new/surplus but didn't mention any pricing on that.

[shocwav3]

Originally Posted by Oldendum

Oilfield Pipe & Supply, Inc.
Glen Allen, VA

The fellow I contacted is Chase 804-382-2858

Couple of pictures here: http://richmond.craigslist.org/mad/3014183875.html Looks like more plate and strap than structural, but you never know. I think he said they also had some new/surplus but didn't mention any pricing on that.

Awesome thanks again.