We are certified to aerospace work, I know I cannot bid on work here, only because there is a lot of garage machine shops here. But I love to read the site. You want this quick turn around and things of that nature, relax, some times things you get the next day are not of the best quality. With us, it is always quality first not cutting corners and run and gun.
Sometimes you just whave to remember you get what you pay for.....
Arty, tell me what kind of machines you have. I can tell you know what the real deal is.
Happy Holidays everyone

i have a miyano BNC-34C'S cnc lathes with bar feeder and one Kitamura cnc mill. two J&L comparators FC-14 and a bench top TC-14 and I Have a boyar-shultz surface grinder. a bridgeport mill and a hardinge lathe (manual). a couple of drill presses and a couple of saws horizontal and vertical.
what kind of machines do you have T.H.T machining.

Wow no wonder Calis in the shape it is.Midwest colled rolled is going for .65 range or are you only purchasing a small section

Please post the number of the company that is selling it for that price? We are getting the shaft around here if that is correct.

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yes, please post. i would like to order from where you are ordering.

out here in calif. we use Fry steel or Bralco. they have more vendors but these two seem to be the cheapest around.

Earl Jorgenson 800 233 8657 /Central Steel 800 621 8510 / Castle Metals 763 784 6866 / My last purchase was 1300 lbs 12L14 @ .62 delivered Also will use Great Central Steel they don't always have the material you need but if they do you will need to purchase usually around 2000 lbs to get good pricing.(usually around 20 -30 % less than the going rate)

Hi Fred,

I can get cheap steel sometimes and some times not... that's my big problem. I cannot get consistency in the prices.

Here there is not a steel mill or something like, so I have to buy with local vendors.
Some suppliers have their own stock and they put the sale price depending on the price they obtained it, no matter what's the price in the "market".

So if I ask for a material they bought 2 years ago... I get the price of 2 years ago, lets say $1.
Then I go three days later and found that they sold all the old inventory and the new one is costing now $10 :-(

So I quote the material with a mix of local prices and onlinemetals.com prices :-)

About the cycle times, later I will put my stimated, so we can check what's wrong/good with my math.

Best Regards:
Everardo Rascon

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