Fwd: RE: [ATM] got steel?

["Matthew L. Brown" <mlbrown@everstrive.com>]

Yes, China is buying tons of steel to fuel their expansion:
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/business/articles/0413steel13.html

Other raw material prices are going up too, for the same reason.  Shipping, 
too, is being affected, with lots of Pacific traffic.

=Matt
================

>I stopped by a metal vendor in Seattle and he told me that steel was going 
>up 3% a day! It doesn't sound like much, but when you compound that daily 
>for a month, its alot! Im going to stick with aluminum as I dont need any 
>additional ballast in the mirror box, considering I have a full thickness 
>mirror, an f/4.5 system, and bearings that are ~2x the diameter of the mirror.
>
>
>
>Matt Simmons
>



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