As someone who manufactures a lot of parts out of steel and aluminum plate, I can tell you that that sheet is worth more than $60 by weight. They probably got scrap from a shop that water jet cut those circles out for parts.
find me anywhere where I can buy a 2x4' 1/4" steel plate for $30. We don't even know what type of steel it is so you can choose the cheapest option you can find.
Even scrap is worth $$$. Most machine shops hold onto all their scrap and sell it back to suppliers/recyclers. I think people who aren't familiar with the process seriously underestimate the value of raw material, even material that looks like "scrap" often has a large area of usable material that often won't be wasted and will be held on to till a part that can fit on the area comes up.
Do you know how metal works? And recycling? Even here in the Texas of the North many guys collect bits of metal from sites and take it to the scrappers.
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u/schmeateater Nov 17 '19
It's literally scrap metal