BaronJ
Ultra Member
Hi Garzweiler,There's a guy in Victoria BC liquidating a bunch of metal:
I wanted to score some cast iron rounds to make lapping plates from but $200 was way out of my hobby budget.
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I tend to go and pick stuff up from my local scrap yard. Old lorry brake rotors are good for stuff like that and tend to be quite good quality cast material. Modern car rotors tend to be ventilated and not as useful, however it depend upon what you want. For instance I picked up a short length of 100 mm round cast iron recently that originally came from a glass mould manufacturers scrap pile. Cost me nothing, I was told to take it away, I dread to think how much a 6 inch chunk would have cost.