Speedy Metals and Pricing Themselves Out Of Business.

[64Springer]

If you guys get really bored and want to look at real, I don't want to call it theft, but...

Speedy Metals has been my go-to outlet for years. They always had fair prices and fair shipping. Not no mo.

I had an idea for a .75 cal. horse pistol. So I checked out S/M. 1.25 od x .75 id x 12 inches long = $73.00 not including shipping. Just plain insane. They graciously dropped it to 56 bucks. Still rubber room pricing for 12" of 1018 DOM tubing.

This would have been in the mid 20 range just a few years ago. They wanted 22 bucks for the tiniest piece of brass. Then wanted 68 bucks to ship mere ounces.

Are they trying to price hobbyists out of the metal working hobby?

 

[44Bro]

How about something a bit better than 1018?
4130 seamless

 

[rchas]

The outcome of shutting the country down for 1-2 years, and rampant inflation caused (stimulated?) by "stimulus" payments. I predict several years before things settle down, if they ever do.... But, this isn't a political board, so....

 

[Scota@4570]

Go to a local steel place and ask for "shorts" or "cut offs".

 

[Scota@4570]

How about something a bit better than 1018?
4130 seamless

That is all thin wall tubing.........

 

[ohio ramrod]

Many things hve gotten totally out of line. Try to buy parafine to make candles!

 

[springfield art]

Many things hve gotten totally out of line. Try to buy parafine to make candles!

Plastic sheeting like you'd buy at hardware store off a roll, to maybe cover a table, has been un-available for a couple years, says my hardware. The "supply chain" thing....boy, who knew something as common as Parafin would be hard to come by?

 

[64Springer]

How about something a bit better than 1018?
4130 seamless

Thank you. Prices seem much more in line with what they should be.

Provided they don't require a second mortgage or a first born daughter for shipping.

 

[Comfortably_Numb]

We got this thing called inflation going on. These prices we are paying are NEVER going down.

 

[64Springer]

The prices have gone down to zero.

I'm not paying them.

 

[44Bro]

That is all thin wall tubing.........

.156, .188, .250 Wall is not that thin.

 

[64Springer]

.156, .188, .250 Wall is not that thin.

Couldn't blow up a .250 wall if you tried.

It would make a damn fine pistol barrel.

I have some .188 wall. May have to go that route.

 

[flintsteel]

Try Online Metals. Good folks and quick shipping.

 

[64Springer]

Try Online Metals. Good folks and quick shipping.

4130 seamless tubing.

1.125 od x .625 id

With 20% coupon, 47.20 shipped

Thank you.

 

[#blackpowderbill]

Many places are changing sale prices on small orders.
For me
What use to be $150 /500$ min order is now 250$/1000$.
One distributor is 1800$ another 2000$. To qualify for shipping included.

I don't see prices dropping anytime soon. And now with the new corporate and personal tax structures you can expect higher cost.

 

[vintovka]

Your dollar took at least a 30% hit since 2020 so don't expect ML parts and pieces not to respond accordingly. Just about any decent factory ML rifle now can bring 500+ and customs 1500+. Yesterdays trip to the supermarket directly supports this. Whats to come should be our greatest concern.

 

[44Bro]

4130 seamless tubing.

1.125 od x .625 id

With 20% coupon, 47.20 shipped

Thank you.

That's per foot. Wicks is under $20 per foot before shipping. Shipping is by UPS, so not too bad.

 

[64Springer]

That's per foot. Wicks is under $20 per foot before shipping. Shipping is by UPS, so not too bad.

Thank you for weighing in again. Much appreciated.

9 bucks less.

 

[wganz]

Just be glad it was in stock.
Now imagine working for a home hospice company and that there is nada, nien, nope, negative, none, not a single John Brown drop of pain medications in the whole damn nation to give to your patients.
Now imagine you're the RN that has to go into that home and tell that family that there is no pain medication, not even in the hospitals, to give their suffering family member.
You. Not the imaginary 81 million votes much less the 2,000 mules.
You. Not the miscreants in Congress.
You. Not even that refugee from a dementia memory care unit(and I've seen quite a number of those so I know one when I see one).
You. The one with the stethoscope around your neck that is suppose to be the one to alleviate the pain. And all you got is a bunch of emails showing back order status.
Yeah, its you that has to 'do something' because of #FJB

 

[user 48679]

Your dollar took at least a 30% hit since 2020 so don't expect ML parts and pieces not to respond accordingly. Just about any decent factory ML rifle now can bring 500+ and customs 1500+. Yesterdays trip to the supermarket directly supports this. Whats to come should be our greatest concern.

Yep - most of the things I bought 20 years ago are at least 50% more costly today.

Transportation & material supply issues aggrivate the situation to no end.