I weighed some stripped copper wire at home on the luggage scales my girlfriend bought from Poundland (predictably, they cost £1). 12kg in a bag. I took it to my local yard where it showed up as 5kg....
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I weighed some stripped copper wire at home on the luggage scales my girlfriend bought from Poundland (predictably, they cost £1). 12kg in a bag. I took it to my local yard where it showed up as 5kg....
I'm going to scrap my mothers old dryer today and I was excited because I could use it as a scrap bin at her house fir any small peices I cone across there. I never thought about the prospect of...
I have so many magnets it's a joke! I get so many of themout of microwaves, TV's, etc. Just takesome speakers apart and you will get magnets to start working with.
I'm going to try this after work tonight, but I may not get through it with my cutters. Looks pretty thick. If not, I'll hold on til I get a cordless grinder. I think the one I have is out of a...
I have a very small amount of workspace too mate and it's stressful. I need a shed, but to get a shed I need to buy an axe and cut down, dispose of ten pretty large treats first that are in the way....
Awesome. I love the way you include your daughter. She probably learns more from a night working with you than she could in any school day.
I was on my way to a train station to pick my little Sister up (been to Paris for the week) so I was in a rush and never had time for a proper look inside but on top was a big, black printer. Or...
I don't understand how some people think. I picked up the back of a tv today. Dumped on sone waste ground. The goodies were all gone at first glance but as I saw a wire poking out I decided to snip...
Yesterday I thought this was so easy and wondered why people with more experience than me were so concerned about these coils. This morning I open up a TV and the ferrite, glue, etc feels like it's...
Wow, you just summed up what is so great about the community on this forum. You actually took the time out and put the effort in to make life easier for others on here. Sincere thanks.
I was going...
Have any of you dabbled in these areas? I have very limited experience. It's something I want to try to get into but I can't really afford it just now. All I've done in the past is invested £300 in...
I try to look at it a different way. Now you know where you stand with him and he can't ever rip you off or cost you money again, unless you're so soft that you invite him to again, and this also is...
I just use the hammer method and it seems to work as well as anything else I could imagine, but I'm eager to hear more ideas for getting rid of glue, plastic, leftover bits of paper when you pull...
Taxi Driver at the moment. Ex British Army. I'm trying to save money to pay to train in Close Protection. That's the main reason I started scrapping. I don't take days off (apart from when we go...
I love this thread, but it makes me jealous.
I want to buy a new car next year and (providing I start the new job I'm after) I have been thinking about getting a Range Rover. They are built near...
I'll try it out tomorrow and list a floppy and DVD drive that I was going to break down for scrap, and I'll add my results here.
I booked a holiday to turkey yesterday and were taking my mother and sister with us as a thank you for all they do for us, helping with our baby. They know how many hours I work and how hard I've...
I took two samples with me to ask about them. Didn't want to throw them in together if that devalued any of it. I had wire that was in a loose V shape from the coil in the back of a TV. It was...
Hmmmm,I'm in the same boat as you mate. Scrapyard basically said all my copper wire is only worth the same as if I'd burned it.
I asked a couple of things at my local yard yesterday and was disappointed to hear that most of my wire is brazier and only worth the same as if I had burned it. It's the stuff out of the yoke on the...
Good work! I'm starting my search for a trailer today. I might get a trailor instead! I took some metal from microwaves and other stuff to a yard yesterday in my car Just to get rid of it because I...
I've noticed some with a black section in the middle. Haven't checked what it is yet. I'm just starting to collect them. Guessing it's that ceramic stuff that takes to a magnet (ferrite?) or maybe...
I'm thinking about buying a stripper on Ebay this week but as I've never used one it's a worry. Don't want to blow a load on a gimmick or something I use once and throw in the scrap box.
I'm going to hold on to microwave bodies as long as I have space, so I take them all in full.
Dingle berries? I think those are what I've just been unwinding copper from today and throwing the round, ceramic prices away. Am I throwing money away?