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Old 28-04-20, 01:55
Grant Bowker Grant Bowker is offline
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Originally Posted by Bob Carriere View Post
Can not pass the opportunity to rant and lament the price of steel since the Covid crisis........ some parts (TSC in particular) is not publishing a sales brochure until the stores are allowed to go wide open.....so buying bulk bolts is $6.00 a pound instead of the $2/95 sales price..... new steel is going up every time the local fabricator places a new order...... a 10 foot section of 2.5 x 2.5 in. 1/4 in. thick trailer receiver tube is now $10.60....last fall around $5.00..... and deliveries are sporadic based on whenever they get an order for the Ottawa area.........so building the "rotisserie" entirely out of 1/4 inch thick 2x2 and 2.5x2.5 has been much more than I expected.

At the same time that the price of new steel is up, even without much manufacturing demand to push the price up, the local price we could get for scrap (if we were so "irresponsible" as to load, transport and sell it to the local scrappies) has dropped to $40/tonne. Get less when we sell, pay more when we buy. It reminds me of the movie quote "greed is good", it looks like greed at work although in this case the good doesn't flow to Bob.....
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