Steel stock for newbie ???

[Nick WheelerParticipant @nickwheeler]

I buy stock for specific projects, plus a bit extra.

But I don't do many of those, so often find myself making smallish parts from larger material than is strictly necessary. That way, I don't need to keep lots of sizes, which is important when storage(and work!) space is a problem.

[JohnFParticipant @johnf59703]

Ian, one other thing I would recommend is mark your steel or alloy materials so that you know whats what, I use paint which is a pretty standard way of doing it, however as far as I'm aware there is no standard colour range used? so just used whatever I had and made a "chart" A dab of colour on the end of the bar is all thats needed

Where I worked all Silver steel and gauge plate were marked so but the store man. colour was blue so I use the same for this.

John

My "Chart" !!!

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

I used a lot of scrapyard stuff in the early days, happy to whittle it down to nothing and practice turning out perfect beautiful bits of useless nothing, learning to use the machine safely and striving for effortless ribbons of swarf in anticipation of amazing future projects

still at the practicing and learning stage

[Jack PrendergastParticipant @jackprendergast96591]

A very useful thread everyone, and thanks to Ian for asking in the first place 👌🏻

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