Well I bought some SS 1 1/2 90's (From MCmaster) back in the day when everyone started to build manifolds i could of sworn i bought them for $5.xx like 4-5 years ago i just went back to MC master and they are selling for 44.30 a piece...So did material jump that much in 4-5 years?

 

yes!!!! With China being the world leader in industrial metal they are buying everything up so steel is getting harder to source out hence price increase.. I don't know if you were actually buying stainless before but price has increase around 40-60% in the last 2 years..

 

You probably looked at the short radius ones. The regular sch10 1.5" 90's are $8.26, still expensive. But not $40+

 

what he said ^ tight radius is about 5x the cost


1.5" high are 44
2.25 high are 8


Height (A) Each
10 Schedule — .109" Wall Thickness
1-1/2" 45735K323 $44.30

2-1/4" 45735K215 8.26

40 Schedule — .145" Wall Thickness
1-1/2" 45605K213 $40.37

2-1/4" 45605K515 9.90

 

A place in town where I get mine from sell the 90's for $5 and some change and the 45's for $3 and some change. Thats canadian pricing too.

 

A 1-1/2" SCH 10 90° on Ace Stainless is $5.79 ...

http://www.acestainless.com/index.ph...ewCat&catId=75

 

Give steel prices time to come back down. They are falling rapidly. McMaster Carr probably doesn't update their catalog until their current inventory is depleted and they get a better price on new materials. Check locally at your piping supply houses. Tell them you want stainless weldels.

 

Mcmaster raised there price, but acestainless hasn't . ( ok they have but not as much as mc has )

 

Stainless prices have been on the rise since late 04 (during 05 and 06 they were fluctuating rather rapidly due to China's buying power and rising nickel prices). In the last 2 months we have seen a drop in prices on many items and hopefully they will continue to fall (for the consumer's sake).

We raised our prices from an initial price of $4.25/ea in 04 to the current $5.79/ea slowly over the last 4 years but when our new stock order from overseas arrives there will be a drop in prices for a short period of time. This is not because our cost has dropped since our last stock order, it hasn't.

Richard@Ace

(This is not intended as spam. I'm merely using our prices as an example of how the market has gone up over the last 4 years.)

EDIT: In regard to McMaster...they are not and have never been concerned with being competitive in the price department. Their current prices are high for a couple of reasons and will continue to be high until their current high cost inventory is sold. When you have 400,000+ items in stock and have over 300 people on the sales desk in one location alone you've got a lot of overhead to contend with. They're intention is to be a one stop shop (in person, online, and with their catalog)...not a price conscious distributor.

 

Rich from Acestainless.com is where I buy my Weld El's and supplies. Fast shipping too. I actually need more soon.

 

i order all my SS from acestainless.com very fast shipping

 

I'm in Canada, and I still order from him from time to time. Though I have a very good supplier now locally.