Today I found an old table top radio 1930's vintage
tossed to trash , the metal base and speaker . so the wood was gone just the guts or what was important to a scrapper.
The heavy base has a nice transformer - a tuner - large speaker with transformer and wires - outlet plug wire , wound copper internal antenna .
Once stripped to separate metals I figure pound and half of copper
as under tubes had copper also
7 pound metal (heavy grade ) I could get to pass with short .
and some tin 2 pounds
I figure $3.50 scrap value
Then a little research
http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pu...prices1998.pdf
http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pu...per/240798.pdf
I figure 1930's scrap value
wile prices fluctuated .12 cents seems doable
Ok time for lunch
year 2014 $ 3.50 could buy lunch
$1 menu's (fast food)
pizza
Bodega food
1930's .12 cents
As my father told me , ten cents could buy a nice sandwich and drink
The way my father talked about a nickel (enthusiasm)
I bet .12 had some decent value
But wait 1930 would of been a silver dime and 2 pennies
or 2 nickels 2 pennies or 12 pennies . I'll take the silver please
but thats another story, or is it.
I wonder if there were scrap yards to sell to back then
Any way metal is king,
good value then
good value now
lets do lunch
how bout a nice cold one for that matter .
