Im not doing anywhere as much scrapmetal as i was. But am still cleaning up what I have sitting around.
My Escrap piles probably over a Ton but its a 450 mile journey to get it to a buyer, who pays about 1/3rd of the US price for it. They have said that they will pay extra because the distance, but need photos to judge it.
I dont have a car thats viable for towing a trailer at the moment and petrols US$1.45/litre here.
I have bought several cars of the same model etc. I find they all have similar probems & I have learnt a lot in that time.
Considering the car, parts are fantastically cheap from overseas. What i pay $200 for here in NewZealand,, i pay $40 for on ebay inc postage from Europe.
I have figured out how to fix certain things that go wrong at certain times/milage. At garage rates of NZ$100/hr ( US$66 ) its not worth fixing them. But at my time $ it is.
A certain small part, Coolant Temperature Sensor, may be bad & cause near unrelated problems.
Garages cant waste time trying to figure it out @ $100/hr. You either specialise in them, or you dont work on them at all.
So between that & my house & looking for a well paying job, even minimum wage here is well paying considering my tiny overhead costs. Min wage is about NZ$17, soon in a year or 2 NZ$20/hr (US13.50)
Im a qualified Machinist/Welder.
Aluminiums at a standardly nice price of NZ$1,oo /Kg. NZ$1.50/Kg for 3xtrudion
Lightgsuge is $100/Ton. Probably $70 @ my yard
Coppers actually at a nice high price thats not been seen for a long time. NZ$7.oo / Kg
I took a shopping bag full of Copper in last week & got $41, that got me a $10 phone top up, car indicator bulb, food & coffee.
I'd redeemed a voucher for $5 last week at my car parts shop & got a indicator bulb then because its handy to have one, now two, if one blows ( I replace both bulbs when one blows ) @ $4.50 each.
There was some server power supplys laying about taking up space, so they got scrapped this week, not much $ wise but enough to fill the bottom of my scrap containers.
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