look up local welding supply and welding shops and call to see if they sell steel stock. they are the cheapest place, usually about 50% cost of the online metal mart type places, plus no shipping charges. and most usually have a rack of cutoffs that they sell cheap.
Old furnace steel panels---good steel.
I'm no expert - I bought new steel exactly once - for a 4.5x6x2 steel sided utilty/camping trailer that I had a friend fabricate for me. All new steel. I had no idea initially where to get steel. The yellow pages were some help. I just started calling metal supply places-some were friendly, some not so much. I'm in Pittsburgh and I had at least 6 options within an hour, not including Youngstown where there were more. I learned a few things - prices vary widely for the exact same size and thickness - I got prices from all and then decided where to buy. Some didn't carry certain sizes. I ended up buying from 3 different local places due to supply and price. One was a welding shop that sold steel too. One fabricated HVAC stuff (I needed pretty thin sheet steel). A third was a gigantic steel supply outfit that used a large overhead crane to load flatbed tractor trailers. I pulled in with my jeep and borrowed 4x8 utility trailer in between the big boys. At that place, I noticed and was able to get some drops/cut offs steel plate diamond tread very cheaply, and might have gotten all my steel there had I visited the place first. I have to assume such a place exists other than in Pittsburgh (we aren't just the steel city anymore, but I guess we still do some of that too). Good luck!
https://www.yarde.com/cgi-bin/dropzone.pl
Thats the place close to me with drops. And they list them online with about the same accuracy of car-part.com, which is better than nothing.
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