Scrap Metal Tips and Small Talk

[yellowsnow]

It's that time of year when aluminum cans are revealed from snow gone. I actually collected some through the winter. I can get allot where I live but they stink, yukky. I'm working again, allot, about to finish up a 19 day straight stint on Friday, who knows.. I would have to use leave time to go to the scrap yard, not worth it.

I've collected a bit of iron, just a bit, I have almost no storage, got a free 100 ft. extension cord a week ago, hardly enough to bring in, but as usual I drive by allot of iron. My trick with stripping wire is putting in a car outside in the sun and let it get really hot. Still, I have allot plenty to strip, or that I would like to strip, and don't know how I'm going to do it, at a certain size wire I just give up. I am still amazed at how much plastic we throw away at work, you wonder maybe at what oil price we stop tossing plastic.

do you own a stripper?

yah, so much plastic in consumer goods, a hassle to remove to scrap the metal.
If more metal used in products, last longer and more recyclable

[everything1]

No, I just tie the wire off to something, anything, keep it taut and walk backwards as I use a sharp box cutter to strip the insulation. But, when I take the time I see their are better ways, just need to find them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LquGF-xfbHU

[t00nces2]

Took a load in today. Not bad. Brass $2/lb. I can get the good beer tonight.

[yellowsnow]

No, I just tie the wire off to something, anything, keep it taut and walk backwards as I use a sharp box cutter to strip the insulation. But, when I take the time I see their are better ways, just need to find them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LquGF-xfbHU

well, it is easy to strip solid core wire knife or box cutter.
Much tough doing that to stranded copper wire.

[redraspberry]

From record-setter to rubbish: World’s biggest cruise ship to be scrapped without sailing a single voyage

https://thepointsguy.com/news/record...ship-scrapped/

An unnamed cruise vessel of nearly record proportions that has been under construction in Germany for an Asia-focused cruise line will be scrapped before sailing a single voyage, according to German shipping magazine anBord.

This week anBord reported that the liquidators for the bankrupt MV Werften shipyard in Warnemunde, Germany, will sell the bulk of the half-finished ship for scrap and attempt to resell some of its systems and engines.

The vessel, often referred to as Global Dream 2, and a sister ship that had also been under construction at the MV Werften shipyard were designed to hold more than 9,000 passengers, making them the world’s largest cruise ships by passenger capacity.

[yellowsnow]

well, it is easy to strip solid core with knife or box cutter.
Much tough doing that to stranded copper wire.

typo........

[yellowsnow]

Took a load in today. Not bad. Brass $2/lb. I can get the good beer tonight.

u sold them at a good time.