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    Quote Originally Posted by landmine View Post
    You go through work gloves every month

    You know never to sit in the back of your truck cause off all the grease back there.



    Your neighbors make separate piles of metal next to the trash for you
    You know your a real scrapper when you wouldn't even waste time or money on gloves!

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    Quote Originally Posted by mikeinreco View Post
    You know your a real scrapper when you wouldn't even waste time or money on gloves!
    I like keeping my blood on the inside.

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    The show "hoarders" looks a little too much like your backyard.

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    ...You get slightly irritated when your friend goes to the dentist to get their silver fillings removed and doesn't think to keep them.

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    When the sides of your truck are at a 45 degree angle, you might be a scraper.

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    If you never forget to pull the AL spouts off the salt boxes when they are empty...

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    you know your a scrapper if you find old electronics in the trash all the time
    Australian born and raised, Guitar player and TV Collector

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    Very true indeed

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    If you save the lids from your snuff cans.

    If you are reading this instead of doing your day job(like me)....

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    If yove ever cut out a square foot of chainlink fence and then measured the one around your backyard to calculate its value

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    When you cut the brass zipper off your old unpatchable jeans before you toss them out.

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    If you've ever used Google maps to find dumpsters...

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    I bought a trailer for my bicycle, which I will sometimes use to collect scrap. I thought of towing trailer loads to the yard and cutting gas out of scrapping entirely, but now I have stuff that is too big for the trailer.

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    ... if you look at the skirt on whomever's avatar has a flashing gold skirt and drool over the metallic lustre of the skirt and not even see the beautiful woman who's almost wearing it - u r a hopeless, incurable scrapper, holmes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by alchemy View Post
    ... if you look at the skirt on whomever's avatar has a flashing gold skirt and drool over the metallic lustre of the skirt and not even see the beautiful woman who's almost wearing it - u r a hopeless, incurable scrapper, holmes.
    Wait...theres a woman in that picture?
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    You look inside any dumpster before throwing away trash ( On job sites etc.)

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    you have a 5 gallon bucket of leverite

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    Quote Originally Posted by MattInTheHat View Post
    you have a 5 gallon bucket of leverite
    that's hilarious

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    your walking thru a power plant / refinery and trying to figure out what each piece is worth
    I buy and sell all types of scrap and escrap. I buy specialty and hard to sell escrap. I buy resale items. PM me or contact me at jghilino@hotmail.com
    I AM ACTIVELY BUYING ESCRAP OF ALL TYPES. BOARDS, RAM, CPUS AND MUCH MORE

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    You're on a first name basis with the guys on the garbage route - and the codes enforcement officer!
    Success consists of going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm...... Churchill

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