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    CopperMiner is offline Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
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    I feel your pain. It is slow here too. Moving season (this time of the year) is generally good for some extra curbside shopping and excluding the usual useless stuff: mattresses and presswood furniture, it is good if I saw just a microwave oven and a plastic swimming pool ladder. Also, I am sitting in the middle of two road construction sites and I am like blocked on both sides too. It is a maze just to get away from home. The only good news is our shred press is still somewhat okay, but aluminum has lost like 25% of its last year value and copper is not much better. Gas price went a bit down this week and it is currently sold at 2.069 / litre, but everyone hears that it will be a 3.00 / litre by the winter or next year. Last night on the TV news, they were saying that the real price we should pay is not more than 1.93. In other words, they sell 14 cents per litre (53 cents per gallon) too high and it goes straight to their pocket. I guess that it is an opportunity to clean up some of the stuff we put aside before winter.

    NEW TO SCRAPPING? READ THIS: Build up your horde of magnetic and non-magnetic metals in two piles until you have a better understanding of the business. Magnetic material has low value and is mostly always steel / shred / short iron. Read old threads about non-magnetic metals and ewaste (and how to sort them), but don't forget that they generally have absolutely no tolerance for contamination (screw / iron / foreign material).

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    Also I didn't mind lower prices when gas got down to $2/gallon.....but at $4.50/gallon makes it hard to justify even moving the trucks....I still start them and drive around the block at the least just to not let the batteries die

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