My first day as a Scrapper

Be carefull becuase this scraping gets in your blood and you will fill up your back yard real fast, it can get out of hand trying to do the honny-do-list and keeping up with the kids. Just a worning.

Thanks for the encouragement yall.

Bear- yeah that was my plan. I use Active Kill Disk at work. The free version lets you use 1 pass to write all 1's or 0's to a drive to overwrite any info on it. I spent today getting my station set up and I have my first hard drive on it running it through now. My biggest issue is limited space. I'm scrapping this stuff out in my den so I'm trying to keep it as compact and clean as possible. I ended up using a KVM switch at the same place I use my laptop for work to switch between the laptop thats running my monitor and the hard drive wiping machine. This doesn't use up any more space than I was taking up originally so my wife is happy about that..

I have read pretty much every post a few pages deep in each forum now and man there is a lot of good information here. I know a lot of it doesn't really click to me right now but I think as I go to the scrap yard and actually start trying to sell some of this stuff that I will understand more. Terminology is the biggest gap. When the posts start talking about all the different grades of scrap and stuff I'm just not making the connection mentally.

One of my customers today is going to let me break down her old equipment at her office. I usually spend most of my week there so at lunch I can break down her equipment and bring it home in smaller batches. I can see a lot of equipment that I can get my hands on right now but once that is gone it might slow down for me. So I'm starting to put some feelers out to other people about their equipment.

Your right happyscraper. I already ended up with 2 electric pool pump motors today to scrap and its not something I never thought I would end up with. In my mind I thought I would only scrap computers in my spare time. Also talking to my father in law today and telling him what I was doing he is going to save me all the lighting ballasts and any other scrap that he has at work. He runs the building maintenance for a large rehab facility in my home town.