Where do you get materials... cheap?

[2muchstuff]

I live south of St. Louis in Jefferson county. The best place so far for finding scrap metals has been a place called Southern Metal Processing down on south Broadway in the city. Second favorite place has been Vince Jacks on Manchester, just west of Hampton.

Check out one of my previous posts on stuff.
http://www.cnczone.com/forums/showth...7&page=2&pp=10
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I noticed that you are from Columbia. Would by chance that be in Missouri or Illinois.

[WayneHill]

This is my source for materials.

http://www.alro.com/SECLocations/locations_j@.htm

It's a candy store. They get barend scraps from local shops.

[2muchstuff]

Looks like a fun place to go. If you like to go rooting for the odd ball stuff and of course the usual, this place is great too kill a whole day at. Besides the regular stuff upstairs, there is a basement full, several out buildings and a yard.

http://shapirosupply.com

[warpedmephisto]

I am from Columbia, IL. I'll have to check those places out sometime. I need to start building up my stock of raw materials.

[2muchstuff]

Did you get your Taig mill in yet.

[warpedmephisto]

Yep, finally got it in and have been setting it up the past few weeks. I've only done some light CNC work on it (programming in manual code, running very simple programs, etc.) I hope to start in on some more in depth programs with more 3d geometry soon.