M & K Metal Co

lots of materials to select from, cutting service is lacking in speed, need more employees who are younger and quicker, ive been waiting for my materials for about an hour now. in the mean time many customers have been served already, it should be first come first serve, no idea what is going on here!!!
you might want to call in tour order ahead of time, fuk this!
do yourself a favor and just order your metal from McMaster Carr catalog

This is the best stocked and most enlightened metal source and fabricator in town. I am a small business but they treat me like a high roller. Once when I needed just one part cut and fabricated one of the bosses did it for me at lunch time. I was shocked! Been a customer for years and I refer everybody. Sometimes I need some pretty arcane stuff but they always provide it. This is the way to run a business.

Maybe if you need to by 6000 lbs of something, this is a good place. But I went in looking for a very small piece aluminum channel to help out a student I’m mentoring on his robotics project for a high school intro to technology class he’s in. I found a piece that was close to what we need and took it to the counter. After standing there for 3 or 4 minutes being ignored I finally just said «excuse me» really loudly and someone finally came over to me. It was half a pound of aluminum so probably a $ 1.50 remnant, but I was told they have a $ 5 minimum. As I tried to explain it was for a student, I was told «you’ll need to buy something else.» Fortunately for me, another customer overheard what was going on and gave me the name of two other places I should check with. Not a single word from the lady behind the counter, she just went back to her desk.

Yes this is a convenient location but their prices are extremely high and their metal sometimes comes out bent yeah I know metal come spend sometimes but every single time it seems like I get at least one piece of metal that is messed up. Some people are friendly here but for the majority they all seemed a little uptight or use multiple Metal distributors and these guys are probably the most rude and have the highest price but they do have a good selection maybe that’s why they are so rude. I do like their New small part section that has plates balls knuckles hinges boats but they’re really expensive

These guys are great. I’ve used them a couple of times for very limited DIY stuff so I can’t speak to their commercial capacity, but as a home-​owner who needs the occasional 12′ square tubing beam, they’re nothing but very friendly and have the items you’re looking for in stock.

This place rocks. I feel so lucky to have been tipped off about m&k back when they were at their old location and would even go there if they moved 30 miles away.
Almost all other metal suppliers will only supply you sheets of metal and maybe cut it down for you with their shear. Here they will do brake metal, plasma cut and even water jet. On top of all that, the price is just about as low as I have seen anywhere. This may seem petty, but even the prices of their sodas in their machine are cheap.
Do yourself a favor and try this place out!

This place is simply fantastic have a great selection of all sorts of metal. I usually deal with Ron who is always friendly and knowledgeable. Some people are quick to drop off the places might be higher but it’s actually false. If you stop around their prices are highly competitive and usually the differences how thick the metal ass or how long it is. When you’re working with building material, its key to remember the importance of having things delivered on time and always getting exactly what you ordered which is 100 percent what you will get from the team at MnK metal. I have placed over 30 orders with them and they’ve all been precise on time and exactly as promised.
The new location has an even better lay up in before haven’t even greater selection. Congratulations to you guys on running such an amazing business and thank you for your phenomenal customer service and support especially think you’re on for helping me build so many amazing things out of metal.

I teach Welding/​Metal Sculpture at Otis College.
this is the place I send all my students and where I buy all my stuff.
1) it is on average around 25% less than IMS (I have collected data from the 10 years I have been teaching) — it amazes me that so many people belive that M&K is expensive. I urge you to actually call around — I generally pick my top 10 most used materials and price them at a per piece price. M&K is always cheapest.
2) I tell my students to let the counter personnel know they are students and may not know all the accurate ways to order/​names etc — Anyone in this industry knows… metal store /​welding supply folks can be amazingly rude… NOT THE CASE at M&K.
3) I have shopped around. and while others stores may occasionally offer a slightly lower price on a few items, more often than not, their inventory systems don’t let you know when an item is sold out. so… you phone ahead, get a prices, drive there, buy something, head out to the warehouse, wait in line, wait for the guy to go get what you need, then… he comes back and tells you they don’t have it.
(this happened to me yesterday at Ramcast — — Ramcast gets 1 star)
Price, courteous service, accuracy, and convenience…

There 25%+ more expensive, the only reason I go there is because they’re the only metal sales in the south bay. I buy very small amounts of metal from M & K less than $ 75, when I buy more than $ 75 I go to they’re competition on alameda BL, And now there moving closer to there competition on alameda BL, And now I will have to drive that much further, I will go to the competition for all my purchases, ill save at least 25%. M & K BAD MOVE

Great selection. Pricey and sometimes hard to get out fast after paying.
I go back all the time.

Great service. Good quality metal. Love to get my metal here.

this is the convenience store of metal stores. It’s close, and they have some stuff, but the prices range from 25% higher to almost double of what you would pay at a full metal store, like Bobco.