The local alloy supplier's owner sold out and retired (after 60 years of running it). The place promptly lost their contracts with Ratheon, Honeywell, etc. Probably because it was purchased by an "investment firm" aka one dude that I'm not sure really knows what he's doing. They're just planning on stocking (and I quote) "steel and stainless". This place carried all kinds of weird stuff like sizeable berillium copper and like 20" 8620 bar stock. As well as 1144, 12L14, D2, and other stuff. No one is buying that stuff so I told them I'd keep coming back until i had all of it. I have my eye on 12' of 1144 2", and a couple 4' pieces of 3" D2. But i grabbed these yesterday
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42" of 10" diameter 7075, and about 6.5' of ground and polished 4140. Not a bad snag for a couple hundred!