Hoarding steel rod

[elmer]

Hi my name is elmer and I'm a hoarder. I Hauled this steel rod home from Grand Rapids this morning. Won the bid $125-$156 out the door.
Theirs so much steel rod here my old F250 was doin a little squat.

 

[The Cobbler]

that's a "YOU ****" find. nice !

 

[RPH]

Yup, u ****!

 

[LopezBart]

Definite suckage.... now, what are you going to make?

 

[The Cobbler]

first he needs to buy a lathe, a mill, and a welder

what are you going to make?

 

[Boogerman]

That's great to get identified metal. If the bars in the crate aren't identified individually, I'd take a sharpie and mark them all so you don't get mixed up later. I hate turning mystery metal, have pretty much stopped doing that at all. If I don't know what it is, it's scrap.

 

[elmer]

Definite suckage.... now, what are you going to make?

Have a couple of projects in mind , will probably waste some trying to learn how to cut threads on the lathe and hoard the rest.

 

[elmer]

That's great to get identified metal. If the bars in the crate aren't identified individually, I'd take a sharpie and mark them all so you don't get mixed up later. I hate turning mystery metal, have pretty much stopped doing that at all. If I don't know what it is, it's scrap.

Some of them are marked, some have a tag, some marked with just a color. Would be nice if they were all tagged like this one

 

[Fixr]

Some of them are marked, some have a tag, some marked with just a color. Would be nice if they were all tagged like this one

I believe I saw some TG&P stock there. That adds a few inches hg to the suckage.

 

[elmer]

I believe I saw some TG&P stock there. That adds a few inches hg to the suckage.

What is TG&P ?

 

[Fixr]

What is TG&P ?

Turned, ground and polished. Smooth and straight and ready to use without a bunch of surface finishing. A bit more expensive than hot-rolled.

 

[elmer]

Turned, ground and polished. Smooth and straight and ready to use without a bunch of surface finishing. A bit more expensive than hot-rolled.

OK thanks Fixr

 

[PopcornSutton]

Holy smokes that's a bunch of bar stock!

 

[NUTTSGT]

Where you looking for places to put it all when you came home ?

Did you unload it all by hand ?

 

[no704]

Can I have some?

 

[Jswain]

Definite you ****!!

 

[elmer]

Where you looking for places to put it all when you came home ?

Did you unload it all by hand ?

About 1/3 was banded and I was able to lift it out with the end loader.
The rest had to be unloaded by hand.
Stacking it in several places in the barn.

 

[elmer]

Can I have some?

Yes, almost all of it is 6150 or 1018

 

[NUTTSGT]

About 1/3 was banded and I was able to lift it out with the end loader.
The rest had to be unloaded by hand.
Stacking it in several places in the barn.

I think that picture really puts the size into perspective of how big some of it actually is sitting on 4x4s.

 

[no704]

Yes, all most all of it is 6150 or 1018

Too bad I moved out of Detroit 25 years ago!

 

[elmer]

Definite suckage.... now, what are you going to make?

Roll up- roll on rotary table cart. Work in progress. Added these updated pics of the Rotary table cart.

 

[LopezBart]

Roll up- roll on rotary table cart. Work in progress.

Cool. In my garage in CA, I welded up a two level stand right behind the mill; if I ran the mill table all the way back and up or down to the right level, I could slide the Kurt vice or rotary table on/off the mill table. It does collect chips a bit, but it's worked pretty well, and helps prevent a hernia from moving the 10" rotary table. I'm looking forward to having much more room in our new shop when that gets finished. The top of the table is painted steel, so far, the paint is holding out.

Of course, do make some stops to keep that rotary table on the cart once you're wheeling it around.

 

[elmer]

Some sort of stops yes I'm still working on that.
I think I might want to load- unload from Both ends, theirs probably gonna be room for the rotary table and a vise.

 

[elmer]

first he needs to buy a lathe, a mill, and a welder

OK I took your advice. What should I do next ?

 

[Jswain]

OK I took your advice. What should I do next ?

You ****, nice SB!

 

[elmer]

Thanks Jswain. Lathe is a 1952 SB 13" with a lenze smvector VFD feeding a 1hp 3ph motor.
Definitely still in the learning stage of running the lathe.

 

[dougf]

Nice score! I've been hitting the junk yard for round stock with varying levels of success. Cheap, but all the downsides of mystery metal.

 

[LopezBart]

Nice score! I've been hitting the junk yard for round stock with varying levels of success. Cheap, but all the downsides of mystery metal.

I used to live fairly near an excellent scrap yard that offered both new and old metal; most of the things I've build have been from "scrap". Round stock is indeed where more mysteries are found; rectangular or square tubing is almost certainly 1018 or similar in my experience.

 

[jetlag]

Good auction score. Every now and then we're in the right place at the right time.

 

[PugetDude]

Looks like your life is going to be well rounded going forward.

 

[Achilleus]

Geez I've paid what you did for just 5 of the pieces in your 3rd pic!

 

[elmer]

Geez I've paid what you did for just 5 of the pieces in your 3rd pic!

Paid $59.69 for this 4x4x1/4"x2' piece of aluminum delivered to my door. It's not even all that clean.

 

[Achilleus]

4x4x1/4"x2' piece of aluminum

What are you building?

 

[elmer]

What are you building?

I am Changing out this 7" multi-function device to a 12" mfd. The old screen is mounted on a 2x3x1/4x16 aluminum bracket and this 12"mfd is going to be mounted on the 4x4x1/4x16 aluminum angle.