I love free stuff.

Friend posted a broken dryer up for free... now I can build so much crap....

Ok so... I’m an appliance repair tech. I have al ost infinite access to these. Stainless steel, white, black. Big, little. I trash door panels weekly. Just ask. 

If you weren’t in Oregon trackmouse....

don’t forget your free th400.  

I have 3 dryers and a stove worth of panels, and a dishwasher door and a few infrared heaters worth of small panels to do my sheetmetal work on Darth Nader.  Now i just have to actually get out the cardboard and start making templates and bend some E36 M3 up

Our dryer died last week and I kep it just for this.  What are you guys using the sheet metal for? just car repair? I do need to make a vent hood for the stove...

In reply to grover :

Pretty much any serious metal fab you've seen in any challenge car (except bugzilla, the bug rod, and the pro stock 240z Andy Nelson built, which iirc are made with more cars) are made from dryers. The sheet metal is perfect. And usually free. 

I need to fill the enormous gaps the previous owner left in the package shelf from the roll bar install.

Just trashed a dead microwave, but I was was concerned about the risk of opening up something with a capacitor. 

I can pick up some galvanized flashing pretty cheap. 

One man's trash is another man's floor pans 

We took apart a filing cabinet for metal for the Saab truck. 3 words:

Not. Worth. It.

Holy crap even for a challenge build I will likely just go get virgin panels. What a pain in the butt. Now, for small things, it might be more useful, but since we needed some big pieces (and, you'd think, a tall filing cabinet would be good for that) it was a real pain.

I’m using it for a variety of things... I need a heater box delete plate, radio delete plate, maybe a cluster delete plate, heat shielding....

Also nice oil catch pans for leaky airplanes.

In reply to Floating Doc :

Do not weld galvanized metal. Do not cut galvanized metal. The fumes are bad for you. 

914Driver said:

Also nice oil catch pans for leaky airplanes.

And leaky trucks. 

 About the best place for appliance sides is under the car Catching oil !   My Town has A Sign Painter And Is always replacing Old signs, The piece of Aluminum I got from him was 4x8 and only had nailholes around the edge for 10 bucks I have seen these at the Scrapyard also, 'Think Big' I have an old Expressway sign that was in a wreck It's Alum. Very Thick 7' x 11'  For $30.00 Will Be Fire walls for my Vette and plenty left over and never forget the BEST BIG flat sheets are the Roof's off of Vans and Busses

Floating Doc said:

I need to fill the enormous gaps the previous owner left in the package shelf from the roll bar install.

Just trashed a dead microwave, but I was was concerned about the risk of opening up something with a capacitor. 

I can pick up some galvanized flashing pretty cheap. 

You could use the transformer to make an arc welder and use the metal to build something.   Win win.

saved the sheet metal from the above ground pool I removed.  Its galvanized, so no welding it, but its had a few uses. 

Ranger50 said:

Friend posted a broken dryer up for free... now I can build so much crap....

When I see that my first thought is a fan shroud for an air cooled engine lol

frenchyd said:

In reply to Floating Doc :

Do not weld galvanized metal. Do not cut galvanized metal. The fumes are bad for you. 

Thanks for the heads up, welding isn't one of my skills. Still, good job to make that point in this discussion.

The cutting would be done with tin snips, that's safe unless I cut myself, right?

I love the idea of using this for catching oil from project cars with dripping rear main oil seals ... thanks !!!