Had two quotes for chassis steel today:
8x 25mm 16g shs erw
2x 19mm 16g shs erw
1x 19mm 16g tube

place in reading that gave resonable quotes before: 190 quid delivered! (40 quid delivery)

local place quoted 105 quid, going with them.

still, I remember the day when it would have been 50-60 quid. that's what we get for not getting our fingers out. :/

[Edited on 24/6/04 by blueshift]

As was mentioned on a thread recently, the price of steel has rocketed recently (something about high demand in the far east IIRC)

Who knows scrappies may start paying us for our scrap again soon rather than the other way around!

The people I was with in Thailand last week also confirmed the Chinese steel demand theory.


They buy up whole scrap yards of cars for the steel.


atb

steve

I ordered a new bed 10 weeks ago- was meant to be delivered over a month ago. After repeated nagging I ended up talking to the guy at the factory who makes them who told me the reason they hadn't made them was they couldn't get the steel tubing for it!

James

Scrap metal man's just been round blowing his (own) trumpet.

It just confirms the theory!

Mate of mines laughing though, he's a stockholder and bought up loads of supplies before the price rocketed.

Lucky git!

Cheers,

Neil.

...and it amazes me that National Rail plead poverty, but have many hundreds of thousands of tons of prime steel currently resting between the tracks (just a few cracks here and there). All they have to do is chop it up and ship it to a steel foundry somewhere - and they have the technology to do both!

David

LOL - David,

It certainly wouldn't have any noticeable impact on their services and they might even be able to lower the ticket prices with such a big windfall.

Er... hang on... I didn't mean the running rails!

I meant the ones they've replaced, and are currently resting (rusting!) between the working tracks.

I must try and explain myself more clearly...

David

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Originally posted by James
I ordered a new bed 10 weeks ago- was James

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