Hey Kris, I know a guy who has been looking for some stainless welding. He recently had to pay 60 bucks to get 2, 1' stainless shafts welded into some conveyor rollers. A 15 minute job. If you can beat that price, I can get you some business, are you interested?
Hi Chris welcome,, I'm a lifer machinist retired to a small garage hobby shop. If you have your own tig, I may be able to send some work your way. Cool stuff you're building. I'm starting to play with some metal spinning.
The best way to get scrap metal for practicing on,, is to go dumpster diving behind machine shops. IE,, Union Pump, at 61 and barlow, tosses lots of old stainless pump shafts. After a while, you get to know whose Calgary Metal dumpster has what.