Larry Dickman
Titanium
- Joined
- Jan 30, 2014
- Location
- Temecula, Ca
Just curious if any one else is seeing this. I'm trying to locate some 7075 plate. I've gotten 4 quotes, and they are all double what I paid 2 weeks ago. WTF
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I priced a 24x24” 7075 1” plate (58#) is $200 at Midwest Steel and aluminum = $3.44/lb
I am thinking they're screwing with me on the cutting.
I looked through a bunch of PO's for the last few years. Always in the $4-5/lb range regardless of quantity. now, 4 major suppliers quoting $7-8/lb?
I wonder if it's from a Russian mill - some of the last 7075 I bought was marked "KUMW", which is of Russian origin. I'd rather have US-made...
With Boeing's MAX issues, I would have guessed that a slowdown would have dropped Al prices, but big as they are I don't know if that really would effect things. Has the economy out there picked up recently, slowed, or have the Al import cuts finally taken effect?
I'm thinkin now my best strategy is going to be to buy a plate saw and try to stock a big chunk of what thicknesses I use. Then I can hack off what we need, when we need it.
If you can swing it, do it.
Along those lines, do you ever get prints where the engineer specifies rolling orientation to part axis? Being able to cut your own blanks would rock in that situation.
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